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Apparently(and here) Google have bought have bought Applied Semantics, "...a
company that provides domain name, contextual advertising and enterprise
search solutions".

What's interesting is how they do it :

"A massive ontology, or knowledge base of concepts and their relationships,
lies at the heart of all Applied Semantics software products. That means
that the software already understands what a word or phrase means and how it
relates to other concepts in a document or web page."

I've not read much of the docs but seems like a close but slightly scruffy
relative of WordNet & Cyc.

What (if anything) Google will do with this remains to be seen. It would be
interesting if RDF got a proprietary, commercial competitor. It would be
much more interesting if Google got RDF.

Cheers,
Danny.





 

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