Posts Tagged with ‘semantic’

Microsoft, Powerset and Chasing the Tail of Semantic Search

Leslie Poston

We wrote about Evri earlier this week and how it falls short of the mark on being a valid semantic search tool. Now Microsoft is jumping into the quest for true semantic search by purchasing Powerset and lumping it under the Microsoft Live Search umbrella.
Microsoft has made no secret of its great desire to be more of a presence on the web in recent months. It has continued a torrid on-again, off-again affair with the idea of buying Yahoo (recently [...]

Foof Is Not A Good Representation Of Semantic Anything

Leslie Poston

Foof came across my radar as part of a site called BzzAgent, where it was featured in a section of the site called the FrogPond. When one of my friends, a BzzAgent member, saw it and told me about it, I knew I had to check it out. I'm not a fan of ad blocking plug ins and applications as a rule and I was hoping that semantic blocking would be a better way to handle the issue.
Sadly, that is [...]