Comments on: Google and Owl - huh (aka how many ontologies??) http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2007/01/08/google-and-owl-huh-aka-how-many-ontologies/ Weblog for the Mindswap research group at University of Maryland Tue, 2 Dec 2008 22:01:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.10 by: Vladislav Chernyshov http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2007/01/08/google-and-owl-huh-aka-how-many-ontologies/#comment-12309 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:36:41 +0000 http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2007/01/08/google-and-owl-huh-aka-how-many-ontologies/#comment-12309 I did this request "-xyzzy filetype:owl" from Russia (I live here) and I got 11 500 results. huh!) I think we should stop to pray on Google in this question. IMHO, in this case quality (of the ontologies and their interconnectivity) does matter, not quantity. I've been styding semantic web for almost half a year, but....I'm still confused on how to make on all this something REALLY useful....And I'm very confused comparing growth rates of a semantic web and WWW itself: I've read historical chronicles and figured out that WWW was born in 1989 and 9 years later, in 1998 it was MUCH MORE bigger and USEFUL than semantic web now, in 2007 - 9 years later from it's born date in 1998.... I'm REALLY want to make something useful. I want to make an intelligent web agent, but as I said I'm still confused with what can I do... It would be great to have some discussion on this. I did this request “-xyzzy filetype:owl” from Russia (I live here) and I got 11 500 results. huh!)

I think we should stop to pray on Google in this question. IMHO, in this case quality (of the ontologies and their interconnectivity) does matter, not quantity.

I’ve been styding semantic web for almost half a year, but….I’m still confused on how to make on all this something REALLY useful….And I’m very confused comparing growth rates of a semantic web and WWW itself: I’ve read historical chronicles and figured out that WWW was born in 1989 and 9 years later, in 1998 it was MUCH MORE bigger and USEFUL than semantic web now, in 2007 - 9 years later from it’s born date in 1998….

I’m REALLY want to make something useful. I want to make an intelligent web agent, but as I said I’m still confused with what can I do…

It would be great to have some discussion on this.

]]> by: Raza Kashif http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2007/01/08/google-and-owl-huh-aka-how-many-ontologies/#comment-10216 Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:42:43 +0000 http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2007/01/08/google-and-owl-huh-aka-how-many-ontologies/#comment-10216 well i did so in a meta engine that returned me some different results from yahoo,msn,google,.... and so forth about 10 engines. I explored all i could and found out that most of it was useless data for a person finding an ontology. and yes google need to narrow there general search to accuracy! what think you? is there any was we could do a search like " *.owl " or " *.* .owl " in any search engine or google. what suggest you? Happy new year all ! regards rk well i did so in a meta engine that returned me some different results from yahoo,msn,google,…. and so forth about 10 engines.

I explored all i could and found out that most of it was useless data for a person finding an ontology.

and yes google need to narrow there general search to accuracy! what think you?

is there any was we could do a search like ” *.owl ” or ” *.* .owl ” in any search engine or google. what suggest you?

Happy new year all !

regards rk

]]> by: James Hendler http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2007/01/08/google-and-owl-huh-aka-how-many-ontologies/#comment-9869 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 16:09:50 +0000 http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2007/01/08/google-and-owl-huh-aka-how-many-ontologies/#comment-9869 I updates the original post to make it clear that for some reason this seems to be different in the US and at least Germany. the point Gunnar makes, that the numbers don't seem to add up is exactly right -- that's the point of my blog - that Google searches in this space don't make much sense at all. in my google (US) -gunnar also finds about 107k, gunnar = 1 - so at least it seems more consistent :-) I updates the original post to make it clear that for some reason this seems to be different in the US and at least Germany.

the point Gunnar makes, that the numbers don’t seem to add up is exactly right — that’s the point of my blog - that Google searches in this space don’t make much sense at all.

in my google (US) -gunnar also finds about 107k, gunnar = 1 - so at least it seems more consistent :-)

]]> by: Gunnar Grimnes http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2007/01/08/google-and-owl-huh-aka-how-many-ontologies/#comment-9865 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:57:57 +0000 http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2007/01/08/google-and-owl-huh-aka-how-many-ontologies/#comment-9865 I get: "-xyzzy filetype:owl" - 5,070 "-gunnar filetype:owl" - 4,870 Wow! Several hundred ontologies mention my name! BUT "gunnar filetype:owl" - a single hit :) (Try also -word that rhymes with duck to see how rude ontology engineers are!) I get:

“-xyzzy filetype:owl” - 5,070
“-gunnar filetype:owl” - 4,870

Wow! Several hundred ontologies mention my name!

BUT

“gunnar filetype:owl” - a single hit :)

(Try also -word that rhymes with duck to see how rude ontology engineers are!)

]]> by: Richard Cyganiak http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2007/01/08/google-and-owl-huh-aka-how-many-ontologies/#comment-9855 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:22:07 +0000 http://www.mindswap.org/blog/2007/01/08/google-and-owl-huh-aka-how-many-ontologies/#comment-9855 Well today I get 5700 results for the same query. I can produce more meaningful numbers by analyzing coffee grounds. Well today I get 5700 results for the same query.

I can produce more meaningful numbers by analyzing coffee grounds.

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