Glimpse of Web 3.0
The necessity to address the US military's concern about their network connectivity led to the birth of Internet. The emergence of world wide web has led to the decentralization of information for the users. Nowadays we are not only increasing our usage of internet but also changing the manner in which we interact with it. Internet no longer remains confined to searching information - we make friends on social networks, post comments on blogs, share information on wiki. The transition form Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 took almost 10 years & in this period we moved from a dump of static information where people limited to only reading articles to more interactive form facilitating collaboration between people. Web 2.0 really made a fundamental change in the manner of the usage of internet. Soon we are going to witness another change in the form of Web 3.0.
Many people believe that semantic web is one of the components of Web 3.0 & some even consider it to be synonym with Web 3.0. So how is Web 3.0 going to bring about the change? Google has become a part & parcel of our life. Currently search engines like Google rely on keyword phrases to figure out what the page is all about. For instance if the page contains "football" repeated a lot of times then the search engine thinks that the article is on football. This may not work every time & we might not get the desired result. Imagine if the computer can understand what the context is & not just the keyword(s) to return better search results. It's like integrating artificial intelligence with the search engine capability - teaching the engines to read, understand, draw out the essence and be able to deliver it to us, just like a human would do.
The Semantic Web requires the use of a web ontology language to produce domain-specific ontologies that machines can use to reason about information and make new conclusions instead of simply matching keywords as done by the present search engines. Once machines can comprehend and use information, using a standard ontology language, the scenario would change altogether. Soon the day won't be far when we will be able to search for the nearest restaurant that serves Italian cuisine, even if the nearest restaurant advertises itself as a pizza joint and not as an Italian restaurant. The soon to be outdated concept of throwing raw information by the search engine will no longer continue further.
Does this mean that Google's search engine technology is going to be obsolete in the near future? The answer has to wait till such a time comes in the future when we will be able to witness the next phase of development in web technology.
Comments
This complete post sounds like a network of websites like WoframAlpha; which can interact with one, remember one's preferences and make decisions as to what to show to that person.
So instead of seeing preset information from such smart websites one can get information garnered and set according to his preference.
Seems nice if privacy & security can be handled well.
Posted by: Ankit Srivastava | May 25, 2010 2:53 PM
How web 3.0 is going to change the way we develop web applications or current way of development will do??
Posted by: Saheem Mir | June 23, 2010 4:43 AM
I am not sure about web 3.0 and the semantic web. Semantic feels like an iteration when related to search. If web 1.0 was dumb sites, and web 2.0 was social - web 3.0 is privacy. Secure control of your information to all you to watch, find and buy without giving up your personal data.
Posted by: Colin Henderson | July 28, 2010 3:40 AM