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The examples of "semantic search" reported in the article don't look innovative at all to me. Giving you specialized results (eg maps) based on the search query
by danmaz74 15y ago
The examples of "semantic search" reported in the article don't look innovative at all to me. Giving you specialized results (eg maps) based on the search query has been done for ages, and expanding on that can be useful but it will hardly be revolutionary.
Moreover, trying to guess the semantics of user's queries can be very annoying to some users, especially the geekier ones which are often also the trend setters in this area - there are lots of people already being pissed off by google when they search for synonyms of what you type, and not exactly what you type.
Competition is always good and I hope that Bing and Google will make search always better, but I'm not so sure how useful will be what was reported in this article.
- mturmon 15y agoThe article is thin on the use cases of semantic search, which is the market Bing says it's trying to serve ("a decision support tool"). The article raises the question of "how will Bing make money" and then drops the question, and goes on to talk about competing with Google. Lazy thinking by the writer.