My Semantic Web search engine
I’m done reading my nightly dose of papers, a few were dumb, but a couple a bit more interesting when I noticed a recent Google blog post on Custom Search Engine. It’s basically a Rollyo rip-off, except it comes with ads, but I digress. I had to do the obvious and created a Semantic Web search engine. Anyone is allowed to add sites to it (no invitation required). They have a simple UI to add sites either one at a time or bulk uploading. They do support OPML (yay not) but to make it even worse, you must “tag” your URLs with cryptic include/exclude tags specific to my search engine: bleuch!. I have not been the most optimistic SW enthusiast lately, but you look at these hacks and wonder whether this such simplicity of OPML or one-of XML formats is the true sweet spot for data interchange on the web. At least, Wing is sharing his positive thinking on SW so I can have sweet dreams and not think about the horrendous paper I had to read for school tonight..Anyways, one of the good things of Google Rollyo is that planets can have their own search engine too and Venus doesn’t have to solve this problem for them, except for maybe a “hacky” Google Custom Search Engine template to help ease the pain from the planet lords (too bad you can just point your custom search engine to an OPML on the web, instead you must upload one everytime, oh well).
BTW, dajobe, shouldn’t we have Wing on Planet RDF?
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- 10.24.06 / 2am
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