I'm told that the semantic web isn't really a real web like the cobwebs hanging from the corners of the mud pit where I do my bathing. So I'm reassured that there is no giant flesh-eating spider at the center of the semantic web waiting to devour me, though I have dreamed this many times.
Instead, I'm told, the semantic web is a sophisticated system of information that will make meaningful connections for us, figuring out what we want, even if we don't say it directly. In other words, reading our minds. Somehow this frightens me even more than the giant spider.
But ready or not, here it comes.
So sez Mashable.
They say that Google is going to change the way we google, like today. They are launching their “Knowledge Graph”, which will nudge and wink at you, suggesting in a pop-up window, that they know what you mean when you type in an ambiguous or vague search term, such as "man cave."
According to Mashable, Ben Gomes of Google says Google is switching “from strings to things.” That is, over 500 million people, places and things, with 3.5 billion attributes.
Just recognizing keywords isn't enough. Now it's relationshipes, entities. Nodes.
And soon enough, the whole webby universe is bound to follow suit. Everything is about to change tremendously. Again. Just when I thought I was getting the knack of this place.
It's enough to make an unfrozen cavewoman librarian cry.
