Semantic Search and the Web 3.0
A core element of the Internet of the Future
What is Semantic Search?
In general, current search engines work using a keyword approach: the specific words you put in are searched for in the content data/metadata and relevant web pages where those keywords appear pop up. This is the basics of Keyword Based Search or Lexical Search.
Semantic Search is a whole different search, where the aim is to have the meaning of the query guide the search and not so much the keywords that you use. We want the search engine to understand the meaning of what we are typing, going further than just looking for the specific words the query includes.
Semantic search wants to make query results suit more what the user is looking for by understanding his search intent, and maybe even bringing in context from previous searches that the user has done.
The etymology of the word ‘semantic’ is the study of meaning.
In this sense, the Web 3.0 could incorporate Artificial Intelligence, allowing browsers to know more and more about their users, refining the results returned from specific queries while doing so.
