Wiki gets semantic search
Internet start-up, Powerset, has launched a semantic search tool for Wikipedia.
Its technology is designed to assess the meaning of words by reading them within sentences from across the web.
It returns slower results than industry leader, Google, although the tool is only in its infancy. Co-founder, Barney Pell, told the mercury news: "This is just to whet users’ appetites for more and more."
The semantic web is considered to be the next evolution of the internet.
Inventor of the worldwide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, told the Times recently it could "create a seamless web of all the data in your life".
"Using the semantic web, you can build applications that are much more powerful than anything on the regular web," he added.
Powerset needs extra computing power, is slower and is up against the might of Google, which according to analysts, comScore, grew its search revenue by 68 per cent in 2007.
