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  Wired Campus: Encyclopaedia Britannica Goes -- Gasp! -- Wiki - Chronicle.com 

  http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3064/encyclopedia-britannica-goes-gasp-wiki

  In the Comments Two years ago in my doctorate program I had to buy a $120 dollar book on affordability and the rising cost of higher education. Anyone else see the irony there? Apparently the publisher ... didn’t. --John who is not an expert on anything Recent Posts June 6, 2008 Encyclopaedia Britannica Goes -- Gasp! -- Wiki Long a standard reference source for scholarship, largely because of its tightly controlled editing, the this week it was throwing open its elegantly-bound covers to the masses. It will allow the “user community” (in the words of the encyclopedia’s blog) to contribute their own articles, which will be clearly marked and run alongside the edited reference pieces. This seems to be a response to the runaway success of the user-edited online reference tool Wikipedia . (See for yourself. Do a Web search on a topic and note whether Wikipedia or Britannica shows up first.) Scholars have been adamantly opposed to Wikipedia citations in academic papers because the authors and s   [More...] [Less...]

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  Taking on Google: Is Semantic Technology the Answer? 

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  A growing number of entrepreneurs and investors promise a next-generation Internet that is organized, simple to use and makes it easy for people to find things. The so-called semantic web will be based ... on search technology that will enable people to type in their questions using everyday language. Developers of next generation search engines say their technology will “understand” the language within those queries—much more precisely than Internet giant Google’s technology. The new search engines will then scour databases that have already “read” documents from across the web to find the best matches. Specific answers can be found for queries such as “Which is the best oil company in the world?” or differentiate between “movies by women,” and “movies about women.” That’s the goal of a handful of semantic search startups that hope to change the way people look for information online. But their greatest challenge will be taking on Google, which vaulted to the forefront of the Internet sea   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 3 August 2008, by: Jakub Uradnik  [Report as spam]

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  Tags:  information search, internet search, search, search engines, semantic