[Geowanking] Web 3.0 may be here

[Andrew Turner]

Whether it provides new insights into our world via a one-search box
or not is left to be seen.

Where I do think semantic analyzers like Alpha have the potential to
bring about a revolution in computing is in it's real handling of
natural language queries. Both in the question, and the single, simple
answer. So I could easily hook up my Mac's speech input to ask
questions of my computer orally and get responses aurally, whether
it's in the hallway, in my kitchen, office, or living room.

http://start.csail.mit.edu/startfarm.cgi?query=What%20is%20the%20weather%20today%20in%20Arlington,%20va?

Doesn't work, but could:
http://start.csail.mit.edu/startfarm.cgi?query=What%20is%20the%20traffic%20like%20on%20495-North?

And for deeper data - A next generation of natural language
programming interfaces. It would be like building up visual analytics
like Yahoo Pipes where you can loosely chain queries together and get
meaningful results.



On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 7:02 AM, P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 11:17 PM, R E Sieber <resieber at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Holy @#%$^! I want the API - Renee
>>
>> (Note how much of this is about semantic searches of geography.)
>
> http://start.csail.mit.edu/startfarm.cgi?query=What+is+the+GDP+of+France?
> ..
> http://start.csail.mit.edu/startfarm.cgi?query=Will+Wolfram+Alpha+be+successful?
>
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