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Duane
I have something that might help you.
"google2mkr" is a UNIX shell script
which
translates Google's basic output structure
into mKR.
I did try to find out about Google's internal
categories,
which I assumed were something like the Open
Directory
categories which Google used in the early
days.
But I was very disappointed to find that the
category
labels were always missing in Google search output.
If you look at Google's starting search pages
today, e.g.,
the Firefox start page, you will see that the
broad
Open Directory categories have been replaced
by
cascading short menus of more focused searches.
Dick McCullough Ayn Rand do speak od mKR done; mKE do enhance od Real
Intelligence done; knowledge := man do identify od existent
done; knowledge haspart proposition list; http://mKRmKE.org/
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 10:29
AM
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Requirements
of computer language semantics
John:
On 3/21/09 9:50 AM, "John F. Sowa" <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Google, for example, became a multibillion-dollar
company very
quickly, despite the fact that they have no semantics for
the terms
they search for.
This
is sort of true but not entirely. Having studied Google since day 1, I
have found that they do offer rudimentary disambiguation where terms may have
a plurality of meanings. These are often grouped by upper layers of
classifications. They do retain several ontologists on their staff.
Try a search for washington.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=washington&btnG=Search
Note
that the first result page real estate is divided among several types of
?washington? (DC, Uni, George, state, etc.). This overrides their normal
dynamic algorithms that track what users click and elevate those pages in
ranking. Someone has modified the results to ensure a balanced cross
section of Washington samples.
I am working on trying to decipher some
of the codes to find out more about how it works.
Duane
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