Could Google Become the Semantic Web? | Semantic Universe / by Stephen E. Arnold 02.21.10

Stephen E Arnold, el autor de  Google: The Digital Gutenberg (2009), reflexiona en este artículo sobre  las razones por las que Google puede llegar a convertirse en el gran buscador semántico del futuro. De hecho, el el análisis de patentes presentadas muestra que y cómo Google aplica técnicas semánticas a sus algoritmos de búsquedas. Este es el planteamiento del artículo según su autor:

"Describing the Semantic Web as a “Web of data” is not too helpful for most people, I have learned."  There’s a lot of talk about it, but for most Web users, the idea described in 1981 by Tim Berners-Lee means little.

A number of experts and forward thinking companies do care though, including Google. The patent applications I reviewed while waiting to give a lecture on the topic in 2007 were authored by Ramanathan Guha. The key document, in my opinion, was filed in April 2005, published on February 15, 2007, as “Programmable Search Engine”, US2007 00386616 (The mathematical procedures are explained in US2007/00386616, US2007/0038601, US2007/0038603, US2007/0038600, and US2007/0038614. Additional information may be found in the published literature related to the semantic Web and in Google's collection of technical papers in the Google Labs' subsite.) 

As an advisor to BearStearns & Co. at that time, I reported in an email that Google had a far-reaching invention in the Ramanathan Guha filings. Furthermore, Google filed on the same day a total of five patent applications related to what Google called the “Programmable Search Engine.” My analysis of these documents revealed a solid anchoring in the functions in what I call the “semantic space.”

Y concluye:

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Google, in my view, is a key player in the Semantic Web. As Google becomes the Internet for many users, it may be that Google’s methods define the Semantic Web by virtue of its market presence.

At least one member of my team believes that Google is becoming the Semantic Web. I am not yet convinced, but I am tracking Google’s open source information in this important field of information science. Others may want to focus their lasers on this facet of Google as well".

Stephen E. Arnold
Mr. Arnold is a consultant residing in Harrod’s Creek, Kentucky. You can learn more about Google in his three studies of Google technology available from Infonortics, Ltd. in Tetbury, Glos., UK: The Google Legacy (2005), Google Version 2.0 (2007), and Google: The Digital Gutenberg (2009). His most recent Google monograph will be published by Ovum, part of the Datamonitor Group, in the United Kingdom in mid 2010. You can follow Mr. Arnold’s public observations in the Beyond Search Web log at http://www.arnoldit.com/.wordpress and in the Strategic Social Networking blog at http://ssnblog.com.