Here’s a snippet of an article that I ran across on Breitbart that I found interesting:
“Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed it is testing a new Internet search engine it hopes will power the US software giant out of distant third place in a market dominated by Google.
A Kumo.com search engine being privately tested by Microsoft workers is reportedly based on semantic technology that enables it to understand sentences and relationships between words.
Current search engines, including software used by Google, rely on matching words typed into search boxes with those found at websites and in data found on the Internet. “
This is very interesting to say the least, I went to Kumo.com to check out how they are going to put this new search engine together but the site was restricted. Â As of today the only thing that is on the site letting you know that its related to Microsoft is the little Microsoft favicon that displays in the address bar.
Many of us in the industry were wondering if Microsoft was going to pull the trigger on the Yahoo! deal, but it looks like they plan on going in a different direction altogether. Â I’d like to see the semantic web take off in a big way, standardized code would be great and as an added benefit it would reward web masters for compliance to W3C compliance.
It’s only in the deveolpment phase but I’m already writing the code to make sure that I get the maximum amount ot benefit out of this change!
