This post was written by Liz Brady
There is a lot of buzz surrounding Powerset, a semantic search engine, at the moment. Powerset allows you to search more intelligently by asking everyday questions instead of having to guess which keywords to enter. Simply go to powerset.com and enter a topic, phrase, or question into the search bar, and Powerset will give you results that are related to the meaning of your question and sometimes even the direct answer. So the next time you need to answer “who is Hulk Hogan”, plug your question into Powerset and actually get the answer.
Yahoo SearchMonkey is too good for developers. The results are effective and user oriented. You can tweak them as you want. Looks interesting but the only way how SearchMonkey can succeed is if they enable the enhancements as a default across all Yahoo search. Giving a level of control over the way results display makes sense in the long run at least until there are programs that can automate these type of listings. For online marketers, it’s a way to further enhance our offerings and possibly capture a more broad audience.
As per first-impressions review Twine is a sort of self-constructed encyclopedia, but its real power comes from users who make their profile public, or even open for collaboration with others. Because of its sharing tools, Twine is like Twitter, Del.icio.us and any number of other current web apps: Good for notifying others of what you’re looking at and what’s useful. Twine’s user interface needs some serious work to make the process of pawing through saved items much faster. Auto-tagging is also still fairly unreliable, with errors popping up.
Google Semantics 2.2 is a brilliant little Firefox add-on that can help SEO and Google user and content writing quite a bit. It helps users to find out proper words on which Google can work faster and smoother. The updated version is worth trying for all. Google Semantics 2.2 helps for better SEO using Google’s own Synonyms also referred to as Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) and is a vital element in Search Engine Optimization and article writing.
Semantic Radar is a plug-in for Firefox, notifying the user if it finds SIOC, FOAF or DOAP data referenced by the page he is currently viewing. When such data is detected a little icon will appear on the bottom right side of you browser, which lets you access the embedded data easily. Semantic Radar is very handy, great to see what data is available from a page without having to view source. For a Web developer working with linked data it’s a must-have. The design seems a good balance of features.
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