[FRIAM] Google and Semantics

[Marcus G. Daniels]

George Duncan wrote:
> Re the discussion below, while Google doesn't, Clusty makes a basic 
> stab. See http://clusty.com/
As I understand it, Clusty is doing cluster analysis in a statistical 
way, and does not represent things in relations of objects and actions, 
etc. It doesn't make or crawl RDF/OWL or model natural language.

http://www.hakia.com aims to a `meaning' oriented search engine. When I 
searched for `global warming', Hakia gave me a breakdown of categories, 
including stuff like "Possible Solutions", "Movies and Documentaries", 
and so on. Also Hakia has a dialogue system where terminology can be 
clarified (as if one was working with a reference librarian).

These pages illustrate and describe how queries are modeled:

http://labs.hakia.com/OntoSem/hakia-lab-ontox.aspx
http://labs.hakia.com/hakia-lab-onto.html
http://www.ontologicalsemantics.com

Also, I ran across this leak of Google's "Big Goals and Directions 2006".

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-10-26-n80.html

where it says:

"Google wants to have the world’s top AI research laboratory."

Also relevant are Larry Page's remarks here:

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1781121,00.html

"Mr Page said one thing that he had learned since Google launched eight 
years ago was that technology can change faster than expected, and that 
AI could be a reality within a few years"