I was interested to read about a Patent granted to Google where Online ratings (reviews) may be ranked for their relevancy based on the ‘reputation’ of the reviewer. Ratings are very much a part of the Web and people are heavily influenced by Online ratings (and therefore Search Engines find ratings valuables because of the [...]
The use of Microformats and RDFa is becoming more commonplace among search engines. Yahoo has been indexing and using RDFa and Microformats meta data for a short while and now Google has ‘come to the party’ (although Google use of the data will be limited for now – and calls RDFa ‘Rich Snippets’). Microformats and, [...]
Following on from my previous post ‘Friend of a Friend, the Semantic Web and Web 3.0‘ , it is worth adding how FoaF may easily be integrated into any Web Page (including Blog Posts in WordPress, Typepad, Drupal or any other platform). One of the challenges of FoaF is it’s simple to have many RDF [...]
Current People Search engines and sites make assumptions as to the relationships between data and people. The word assumptions is critical here as, although some of the People Search Engines search Web 2.0 sites as well as the standard search engines and the deep web, the data returned are a best guess of their relationships. [...]
