Comments on: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Google http://duncan.hull.name/2009/04/17/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-google/ A personal laboratory notebook Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:12:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: PubChem Bioassay Annotation Poster at So much to do, so little time http://duncan.hull.name/2009/04/17/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-google/#comment-2686 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:12:12 +0000 http://duncan.hull.name/?p=1646#comment-2686 [...] manual annotations. However it does a decent job and I think it’s in line with a recent post by Duncan Hull, where he quotes a paper from [...]

]]> By: Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Cambridge - Semantic authoring « petermr’s blog http://duncan.hull.name/2009/04/17/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-google/#comment-2685 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:22:14 +0000 http://duncan.hull.name/?p=1646#comment-2685 [...] authoring An interesting post from Duncan Hull  The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Google about the challenges of a semantic web of data. Since I am talking on the Chemical Semantic Web at [...]

]]> By: Duncan http://duncan.hull.name/2009/04/17/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-google/#comment-2684 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:33:37 +0000 http://duncan.hull.name/?p=1646#comment-2684 @Andrew yes, I know exactly what you mean, (in a nerdy way of course!)

@Ben glad you found this post useful. As for giving up on good metadata, its just my interpretation – perhaps I have read too much between the lines. As for semantic, it has become a “dirty word” in certain circles. Tim Berners-Lee’s presentations have gone from mentioning the word “semantic” word in every slide, to barely mentioning it at all. See Tim’s Ted Talk for an example… its an interesting change of language.

]]> By: ben http://duncan.hull.name/2009/04/17/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-google/#comment-2672 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:10:39 +0000 http://duncan.hull.name/?p=1646#comment-2672 Thanks for the nice post. The article has been on my to_read list for a little while but I’ve been preoccupied with the whole graduating and becoming unemployed business. You say the article suggests that we give up on developing (I will refrain from using “semantic”) good metadata. Is it really so extreme? After all, Google continues to try to accumulate good annotations for images on the Web (http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/).

]]> By: Andrew Clegg http://duncan.hull.name/2009/04/17/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-google/#comment-2671 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:37:58 +0000 http://duncan.hull.name/?p=1646#comment-2671 There’s something nerdily hilarious about the ambiguous meaning of the word ‘semantic’. Douglas Hofstadter would be proud.

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