Semantic Web Wish List 2009

At the end of last year we presented our list of the top 10 Semantic Web Apps of 2008. ReadWriteWeb reader Zoltán Andrejkovics wrote in to us afterwards, suggesting that we do a post looking at what S ....... Read more
14 hours ago
search engines as gatekeepers

Frank Pasquale wrote the other day at madisonian.net about the Jekyll and Hyde aspect of search engines as gatekeepers. When a single search engine dominates a landscape, as Google does in the U.S. an ....... Read more
1 day ago
On Google Disallowing Crawling of Their LIFE Hosting

Isnt it great how Google makes millions of photos available to the world in their LIFE photo archive? Well  with one exception: they disallow other search engines to access these photos. The same a ....... Read more
1 day ago
Did Google Just Expose Semantic Data in search Results?

In what appears to us to be a new addition to many Google search results pages, queries about birth dates, family connections and other information are now being responded to with explicitly semantic ....... Read more
1 day ago
TiVo search is The Future of TiVo [TiVo]

The redesigned TiVo search does away with the Swivel search and now makes show searching more efficient and HD friendly. Just like Swivel search TiVo search will weed through both live TV and broadban ....... Read more
1 day ago
China targets Google in crackdown on pornography (AP)

AP - China launched a major crackdown on Internet pornography Monday targeting popular online portals and major search engines such as Google. ....... Read more
3 days ago
Comparing Six Ways to Identify Top Blogs in Any Niche

In the early days of blogging you could go to the Technorati Blog Index, enter some identifying terms for a particular niche topic and discover what the top blogs were in the field.
Identifying top ....... Read more
7 days ago
What Yahoo Must Do to Survive

Internet search and advertising giant Yahoo! has been a household name almost from its inception in March of 1995. During the dot-com bubble, Yahoo! shares sold at a record $118.75 a share. Thirteen y ....... Read more
7 days ago
Top 10 things searched for on MAKE and the Maker Shed in 2008


In 2008, the top 10 search terms on MAKE using our google search box at the upper right were...
LEDArduinoSolarHalloween555GuitarRFIDSteampunkLaserBike
Also in 2008 - the top 10 search terms ....... Read more
9 days ago
Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies

In this article, we'll analyze the trends and technologies that power the Semantic Web. We'll identify patterns that are beginning to emerge, classify the different trends, and peak into what the fut ....... Read more
13 days ago