So, Google will beincreasingly able to understand the meaning of the phrases and questions you put into the search engine. This is new. For the most part, when you put a question into google, it looks for a set of keywords that are grouped together and include the words in your question. For example, asking Google What is the capital of New York will result in Google searching for websites that have the words capital and new york in them - using the old keyword only way of searching and indexing the web. That is different than Google actually understanding the question. So, when we talk about google or a search engine understanding the question or phrase presented to it, that is something new.
Yahoo is actually ahead of this and is using the code that is inside a webpage to help it understand the meaning in the webpage content that it is indexing. Go to http://www.opencalais.com to learn about how you can improve your website for the semantic web and help others to find you.
Bruce Whealton
