EU funds future of search engines project
17 March 2004
A group of scientists looking into how to make search engines behave more like humans is reportedly being funded by the European Union.
Some of Europe's leading academic researchers will be taking part in the project which aims to develop a way for search engines to work out the overall subject matter of a web page.
At present surfers struggle to sort information among a growing number of unstructured pages on the internet.
Project SEKT (Semantic Knowledge Technologies), made up of 12 partners from the world of commerce and academia, including BT's research wing BT Exact and the universities of Sheffield, Innsbruck and Barcelona, will attempt to artificially reproduce the human ability to assess the context of information presented and sift out irrelevancies, the BBC reports.
"Having to wade through reams of irrelevant and disordered information to find what you're looking for is frustrating," said Stewart Davies, chief executive of BT Exact. "It undermines the internet's promise of immediacy and its potential as a tool for knowledge."
The European Commission is funding Project SEKT as part of a drive to improve the ways in which people interact with technology.
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