The Google Bloggers have reported on the State of the Google Union, creating this post titled Helping computers understand language. I’m a big fan of Google, but in this case (and in a previous post titled How I Know that Search Engines Haven’t Mastered Semantics), I have to take the side of the devils advocate [...]

The semantic web is coming.  Tim Berners Lee, the “father of the internet”  describes it in this article in Scientific American. The Semantic Web will bring structure to the meaningful content of Web pages, creating an environment where software agents roaming from page to page can readily carry out sophisticated tasks for users. Clear as [...]

Small business and individuals are often faced, at least offline, with the daunting task of competing with big box stores.  More often than not, the small mom and pop shop gets squeezed out by a larger, competing business that offers similar (and often inferior, but not always) product at a much lower price. It’s a [...]

Google recently rolled out two new improvements to Google search. The first offers an expanded list of useful related searches and the second is the addition of longer search result descriptions… read the complete article here It’s true, folks.  I did a search using their suggested phrases.  “spice market review shrimp starter dessert” yields results, [...]

I want to use an example to explain why local search is important. I created a company, Acme Widgets Inc., that has an office in Nanaimo and an office in Courtenay. They each serve the surrounding areas, like the Comox Valley, and Ladysmith right through Lantzville. Acme wants to have a website so customers can [...]