Azeem Azhar Talks Semantics (Idle Words)#

04.28.2003

Azeem Azhar has an excellent summary of the two schools of thought in search engine design, and how they pertain to Google's recently announced purchase of Applied Semantics.

I'm starting to cringe at the word "semantic", Lord knows I've done my share of harm there. It applies to both very structured Aristotelian type 'all the world will be classified' approaches like the Semantic Web, and statistical, mystical, ' we don't need no stinking metadata' stuff like latent semantic analysis.

Azeem clears the semantic clouds away.