San Francisco, CA – Imagine getting the data you wanted online in the format of your choosing. Imagine a world without browser rendering problems, Web designer’s poor design, Web Usability problems, search engine algorithms, or any annoying advertisements in search results.
In our recently published book “The Convergence of SEO and Web Usability” found free here (http://becomenoticed.com/
The suggestion made is that the problems we face today with cross browser compatibility, poorly designed Websites that make it hard to find data, search engine results that are irrelevant or old, and Web usability problems are all leading to one possible conclusion: the development of a knowledge or computation engine in a similar format to Wolfram Alpha.
What is the one main difference?
Wolfram Alpha does not yet pull its data direct from the Web.
While the revolution started by the concept of Wolfram Alpha will continue; the lack of a linked data infrastructure has impeded the success of this revolution and has kept this computational engine from making use of the valuable data outside its respective database.
Concepts presented by Tim Berners-Lee in relation to Linked data combined with exponential change in information based technologies like micro-processors as espoused by Moore’s law, will lead to Wolfram Alpha like knowledge engine interfaces with the Web itself.
The reality is that a large portion of the development of such an interface requires that Web developers and designers to use what is called the RDF Data Model to help distribute information in a format most suitable for machines all over the Web.
When the day arrives that Google gives higher rank to sites with an RDF Data Model attached to it, you will see a mass implementation that could allow for the development of a Web based knowledge and computation engine like Wolfram Alpha.
Web designers and SEO companies need to focus on delivering relevant data in a usable format for both humans and machines.
We depend on Web designers to implement such standards, yet it very well could be these standards that cause a paradigm shift that could put most of today’s Web designers and developers out of business.
It is for this reason that the change has been slow to happen. Google and other search engines are only now beginning to support the languages of the semantic Web. The inclusion of “Rich Snippets” into the search engine’s algorithm is the first sign the levee is about to break.
It is clear once the Semantic Web has been widely adopted, computational engines like Wolfram Alpha will be possible that use the Internet itself as its database. Getting the data and content we want in the format customized to our needs will then be possible. Those are the days worth living for.
Article Written by Michael Latulippe, Chief Executive Officer of Silicon Valley based Web Presence Marketing Firm Clear Prominence, INC found at http://www.becomenoticed.com and Author of the Book "The Convergence of SEO and Web Usability".
