. . INTERNET: SEARCH: TOOLS: GOOGLE : BUSINESS: CORPORATIONS: NAMED CORPORATIONS: GOOGLE: With Semantic Search, Google Eyes Competitors . . With Semantic Search, Google Eyes Competitors By AMIR EFRATI The Wall Street Journalhttp://online.wsj.com/article/ SB10001424052702303863404577281822057679682.html
. A shorter URL for the above link: . http://tinyurl.com/6w3xgj6 . .Semantic search refers to the process of understanding the actual meaning of words that people type into a Web-search box. That would enable the search engine to differentiate between the car brand "Jaguar" and the animal "jaguar" on a Web page that it may want to provide a link to in search results.
.To power semantic search, Google GOOG -0.29%has amassed a giant encyclopedia of knowledge about "entities," such as people, places and things.
.Google's semantic-search effort could help it compete with Apple, which has jumped into voice-activated search with Siri. The software, loaded on Apple's iPhone 4S, takes verbal commands and questions and responds with answers using computer-generated speech, finding the answers with search engines like Google and Wolfram Alpha, which uses semantic technology.
.In an interview, Google search executive Amit Singhal implied the semantic-search effort will help Google compete with Siri. "When we can deliver small nuggets of information, that system is far more suited to mobile phones and searching with voice," he said.
. snip .Google also is hoping its overhaul will help it stay ahead of Microsoft's Bing search engine.
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