tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post2886101716799895987..comments2010-06-07T20:00:03.440-04:00Hank Williamsnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post-10043446863245169722008-10-03T09:42:00.000-04:002008-10-03T09:42:00.000-04:00Structured / Unstructured. Well in "french", i have wrote a book around semi-structured information, be convince that the ultimate will be the no-disruption between an SQL view and and Text view.<BR/>Human thinking is not driven by "schizophrenia" but by a analog way.<BR/><BR/>But, where you're totaly right is the idea of same simplicity of Google approach for strutured searches. Thats the Graal.Alanhttp://www.jamespot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post-80995513052279695142008-09-30T05:07:00.000-04:002008-09-30T05:07:00.000-04:00As you mentioned the opportunity vs the technical challenge, yes the cost of data-mining and information extraction is unaffordable given the scale of the data present in the web-sphere. I think google product search, frequent injection of local search and isbn search are some of the works done by google.<BR/><BR/>Concept of Semantic web as well RDF are rising as well. I think content producers decides, and there will be migratory phase in between.freecheesehttp://freecheese.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post-28246235717642205972008-09-30T04:00:00.000-04:002008-09-30T04:00:00.000-04:00Anonymous,<BR/><BR/>Actually, freebase does a pretty good job of showing us what an interface for something like this might be like. It is not an exact fit, but you can begin to imagine it.Hank Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00592098931050346414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post-43461215782504748112008-09-30T03:59:00.000-04:002008-09-30T03:59:00.000-04:00Zarate,<BR/><BR/>Agreed. Just like you can mark your page not to be searchable. But you dont really need everyone to play. And once something like this gains momentum, if you are not in the system it will be as if you don't exist.Hank Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00592098931050346414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post-34962755427241628012008-09-30T03:08:00.000-04:002008-09-30T03:08:00.000-04:00One big problem here I see here is the cooperation of companies. For example, Direct Line, an insurer here en Europe doesn't allow it's data to appear in price-comparison websites such as GoCompare. Why?<BR/><BR/>Because probably they have something to "hide". In the sense that probably they are not as good/cheap as their marketing department wants us to believe.<BR/><BR/>What you describe is "power to the people" (the power to know and act based on true facts, not advertising) and many companies don't want that.<BR/><BR/>Cheers!Zaratehttp://openid.blogs.es/zaratenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post-65853972086929503442008-09-29T17:45:00.000-04:002008-09-29T17:45:00.000-04:00I just cannot imagine how the user interface of such a structured search engine would look like. The present search engines are dumb simple in this respect, you are presented with a single text field to type search term. Would it be possible to fit the entire query for structured data into a simple text field? Natural language processing and semantic search could come to rescue, but it seems like even greater problem to build that technology.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post-5625625058191590542008-09-29T15:05:00.000-04:002008-09-29T15:05:00.000-04:00charles, I cant find your email, but happy to have you republishHank Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00592098931050346414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post-53544321374321823222008-09-29T13:50:00.000-04:002008-09-29T13:50:00.000-04:00We would love to republish this excellent article on www.AltSearchEngines.com - with full attribution.<BR/><BR/>Thanks,<BR/><BR/>Charles Knight, editor<BR/>AltSearchEngines.comCharles Knighthttp://www.altsearchengines.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post-25599573178503496702008-09-29T11:10:00.000-04:002008-09-29T11:10:00.000-04:00An internet of sites that conform to open API standards could conceivably "fix" this problem... sort of.Erik M Jacobshttp://www.erikjacobs.comnoreply@blogger.com