{"id":741,"date":"2007-03-10T09:47:35","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T08:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/03\/10\/search-engines-are-about-algorithms-wo-structure-while-databases-are-about-structure-wo-algorithms\/"},"modified":"2007-03-10T09:50:43","modified_gmt":"2007-03-10T08:50:43","slug":"search-engines-are-about-algorithms-wo-structure-while-databases-are-about-structure-wo-algorithms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/03\/search-engines-are-about-algorithms-wo-structure-while-databases-are-about-structure-wo-algorithms\/","title":{"rendered":"Search engines are about algorithms w\/o structure, while databases are about structure w\/o algorithms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/03\/09\/technology\/09data.html?_r=1&#038;pagewanted=print&#038;oref=slogin\">NYT<\/a> today has an interesting article about freebase (no, nothing about cocaine here) a forthcoming sematic web approach.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOn the Web, there are few rules governing how information should be organized. But in the Metaweb database, to be named Freebase, information will be structured to make it possible for software programs to discern relationships and even meaning.<br \/>\nFor example, an entry for California\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, would be entered as a topic that would include a variety of attributes or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153views\u00e2\u20ac\u009d describing him as an actor, athlete and politician \u00e2\u20ac\u201d listing them in a highly structured way in the database.<br \/>\nThat would make it possible for programmers and Web developers to write programs allowing Internet users to pose queries that might produce a simple, useful answer rather than a long list of documents.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Valleywag &#8211; the famous tech gossip &#8211; also has something about <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywag.com\/tech\/semantic-web\/\">semantic webs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 02.05.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT today has an interesting article about freebase (no, nothing about cocaine here) a forthcoming sematic web approach. On the Web, there are few rules governing how information should be organized. But in the Metaweb database, to be named Freebase, information will be structured to make it possible for software programs to discern relationships and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/03\/search-engines-are-about-algorithms-wo-structure-while-databases-are-about-structure-wo-algorithms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Search engines are about algorithms w\/o structure, while databases are about structure w\/o algorithms<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13,2946,776,777,778,775],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-history-insights","tag-philosophy-of-science","tag-databases","tag-search-engine","tag-sematic-web","tag-web-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}