Thursday, 26 March 2009

Week 9 and 10--Question 6

How does the semantic web differ from web 3.0?

Web 3.0 is a new type of internet that is as of yet only being imagined for 2020.
Web 3.0 will be a lot smarter and will supposedly make searching for things, such as restaurants, movies , information in general much easier. "Instead of multiple searches, you might type a complex sentence or two in your Web 3.0 browser, and the Web will do the rest" It will look at the whole sentence, not just searching for words, many articles state that it may be like a personal assistant and as you search the web the browser will start to learn your interests and eventually you may not need to ask specific questions. It seems to be thought that the browser will start to know things about you much like a real person would, For example when you search for restaurants, it will remember what sort of food you like by what sort of restaurants you've searched for previously and will already know your location, therefore making everything a lot easier, along with using information taken from your personal laptop or computer and connecting and relating things when necessary.
When I first looked into the semantic web and web 3.0 it seemed to me that their very similar, some websites state that they are in fact the same thing and many suggest that to get web 3.0 you have to take web 2.0 and add the semantic web.
The only difference that I can find after researching is that web 3.0 is about personalising the web for each user with the use of a browser that will over time remember your previous choices and searches and take these in to consideration when you next use the search engine. Whereas the semantic web is more about giving users as many results as possible and linking all the information together through the many different databases that are within the web.

If anyone has anymore ideas about this question,please share? I found it difficult to find the difference!!!

2 comments:

  1. hey, I also had difficulties finding the differences between the Semantic Web and Web 3.0 but your blog has helped me to understand it a bit more, Thanks :)

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