Semantic Technologies Monthly Review. January 2010
Comments (0) Semantic Technologies are gaining momentum and month after month we have reiterative evidence of that. The number of companies that are getting funding for new Semantic projects, and the number of services that use semantics continued during this 2010 first month the pace of the last months.
Other thing that we observe is that the areas where Semantics are strong (search, ad, health…) continue betting on these technologies. Among these areas undoubtedly “Search is king”. During an interview and a preceding presentation, Scott Prevost, principal development manager for Bing search technology at Microsoft, touted developments in search, as well as possibilities during the Web 3.0 conference in Santa Clara, Calif. Microsoft confidence on those technologies moved this company to acquire Powerset two years ago. Now they think that Semantics will be paramount in the evolution of search and that Social Networks will be the key driver:
“When the revolution is happening in Iran and people are using Twitter as the only form of communication, ideally, the search engine should understand what that is, understand from the social network what are the important communications and help to organize that”, said Scott Prevost, principal development manager for Bing.
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