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Over The Counter Culture: The semantic elephant in the room - Google will settle the "top down vs. bottom up" debate for us

  • Stephen Paul Weber · 1 year ago
    One problem with your argument -- Google supports microformats (hAtom in Blogger, SGAPI) and APP
  • Pete · 1 year ago
    Philippe

    Most of the development on the web is bootom up and will be regardless of google or even the money involved. There are over a billion people on the we and even if a small percentage of hobbyists are working on bottom up semantic search this dwarfs google. I am currently adding a sparql to my own project that has yet to turn a dime:

    http://localhero.biz/

    Semantic search kills one of google advantages (accuracy) but it doesn't really have trust or relevance built in so time will tell......
  • Philippe Bradley · 1 year ago
    what do you class as being different between accuracy and relevance?
  • Pete · 1 year ago
    Maybe precision is a better word. An example should suffice:

    If someone is looking for rugby teams in Melbourne a search of Petes semantic store would probably return the website of the Old Xavs rugby team here:

    http://shawcup.localhero.biz/

    This is 100% precise in that I do assert that the old xavs are a rugby team in Melbourne. Its probably not relevant to most people nor is my assertion neccessarily trustworthy (I could be lying). A perfect search mechanism would nail all three aspects.
  • Philippe Bradley · 1 year ago
    ah, I understand now, thanks Pete.
  • Q dub · 1 year ago
    Sharp point about Google's competitive advantage.

    Top-down and bottom-up can work together in clever ways. By inserting non-disruptive prompts when content is being generated (e.g. "Wordpress thinks this is an event. Yes/No?") we can create microformatted content for the basics and leave the heavy lifting such as the "Gash" problem to to the AI geniuses.