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Esther mentioned Google's purchase of Applied Semantics on her new blog.
From Google's side, interesting too! Last month at PC Forum I was pestering Sergey Brin about whether Google would move beyond mostly abstract algorithms to more explicitly semantic analysis... watch that space!
And today there is a tiny mention in Cory's notes from the "Google, Innovation, and the Web" talk at ETCon by Craig Silverstein, director of technology for Google:
We just acquired Applied Semantics. They do targetted advertising. I can't say more. Semantic tech could be applied somewhere other than ads. If I said more, I'd have to kill you.I'm skeptical about the semantic web, but if anyone can make progress it's probably google...