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anybody remembers 'semantic search'?
by elvirs 9y ago
anybody remembers 'semantic search'?
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- taneq 9y agoIt's now just "search". At least, Google's search is getting very good at "do what I mean". Occasionally it's a complete swing-and-a-miss but often it's spookily accurate.
- lmm 9y agoGoogle does the opposite of what the "semantic" folks wanted - explicit, manual metadata. Indeed Google first rose to prominence because it was the first search engine to ignore the <meta> keyword tags (remember those?)
- zenkat 9y agoExcept that Google acquired the semantic web startup Metaweb (aka Freebase) back in 2010. That tech became the foundation of the Knowledge Graph, which is deeply integrated into Google's stack, and powers Google Home / Assistant / etc.
- icebraining 9y agoThat's a bit simplistic; Google definitively uses explicit metadata, they just don't blindly trust it like previous engines did. https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-structured-data https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-struc...
- GrinningFool 9y agoAt first, I really liked Google's DWIM changes. It's great for typos. But it didn't take long before it started doing something other than what I meant. Taking words without typos and deciding I want something else because it made more sense. Showing me too results that did not match all terms ahead of results that did. The list goes on. It's gotten particularly bad when searching for technical matters. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find better search engines. As far as I can tell, they're still the best game in town. They're just not as good as they used to be.
- glubGlub 9y agoOMG YOU GUIZE. SEMANTIC WEB. SEO. The words remain as meaningless now, as they were in 2004. What did these people want me to do? Use words... somehow? (alt text on images, human readable uris, meta tags, blah blah blah, that seems to be the gist of it, what a revolution)