March 18, 2007 6:43 AM
Feasibility of Web 3.0, popularly known as Semantic Web
Product X is sold on-line by 'n' number of providers. Product X has features x1, x2, ... xn. Service provider S1 & S2 use XML tags to describe the product in the web content on their web-site:
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S1:
xmlns: X=http://s1/xterms <X:x1>value</X:x1> <X:x2>value</X:x2> ... <X:xn>value</X:xn> |
S2:
xmlns: X=http://s2/xterms <X:x1>value</X:x1> <X:x2>value</X:x2> ... <X:xn>value</X:xn> |
The use of different tag names by providers for similar objects will limit the utility of this objectivity to a particular web-site. A consumer who wants to buy a product has to study the web content of the service providers to find the best match for his/her requirements. Comparisons of the products and features may be found online in review articles. While the listings on the SERP may be biased because of SE or content provider methods, the review articles may provide individual or community opinions.
The Web 3.0 philosophy is to transform this method of information representation into a more objective manner that can provide information that will enable deductive reasoning and inference by intelligent computers.
Web 3.0 will provide:
- common formats for integration and combination of data drawn from diverse sources
- language to relate data to real world objects
- notations to describe concepts, terms and relationships
This technology will enable to build a Search Engine that can compare the feature x1 ( x1 , x1) of a product to produce answers to the natural language query of a consumer such as: ISP for 256Kbps DSL broadband internet connection. Here product feature x1 is 'internet connection' with value 'DSL'. DSL internet connection may have features like link bandwidth and subscription cost.
The
feasibility of Web 3.0 can be powered by an existence of a Search Engine based on this technology. An interesting presentation
SERP – Search Engine Result Page
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