{"id":346,"date":"2009-09-19T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/index.php\/post\/21457\/"},"modified":"2009-09-19T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-19T17:35:00","slug":"21457","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/21457\/","title":{"rendered":"T2: Judgment Day for Twine?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nova Spivack<\/a>, CEO and founder of Radar Networks<\/a>, just released a preview (see above) announcing Twine 2.0, a semantic search engine to be released later this year. As Erick Schonfeld points out on TechCrunch<\/a>, Twine hasn\u2019t managed to attract broad adoption. I tried it briefly when it came out, and I have to confess that I never understood it.<\/p>\n

But I can certainly see the appeal of delivering faceted search<\/a> for the web to support exploratory<\/a> information seeking. It\u2019s the dream that\u2019s been driving Bing<\/a>, Freebase<\/a>, not to mention smaller efforts like Kosmix<\/a>. It\u2019s hard<\/a>, to be sure. But, as Sarah Lacy tells us, startups are supposed to be changing the world<\/a> \u2013 and established companies can play, too …<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nova Spivack<\/a>, CEO and founder of Radar Networks<\/a>, just released a preview (see above) announcing Twine 2.0, a semantic search engine to be released later this year. As Erick Schonfeld points out on TechCrunch<\/a>, Twine hasn\u2019t managed to attract broad adoption. I tried it briefly when it came out, and I have to confess that I never understood it.<\/p>\n

But I can certainly see the appeal of delivering faceted search<\/a> for the web to support exploratory<\/a> information seeking. It\u2019s the dream that\u2019s been driving Bing<\/a>, Freebase<\/a>, not to mention smaller efforts like Kosmix<\/a>. It\u2019s hard<\/a>, to be sure. But, as Sarah Lacy tells us, startups are supposed to be changing the world<\/a> \u2013 and established companies can play, too.<\/p>\n

The demo video is appealing, but I\u2019ll believe it when I can off-road on it \u2013 and on more than just recipes and restaurants, two highly structured domains that already well covered by sites like Food Network<\/a> and Yelp<\/a>. Twine doesn\u2019t necessarily have to cover all domains to be useful \u2013 perhaps a \u201cshort snout<\/a>\u201d approach like Bing\u2019s will be good enough to drive adoption.<\/p>\n

In any case, I\u2019m impressed with Twine\u2019s ambition. But ambition isn\u2019t enough \u2013 especially given the increasing number of people and companies who share it. If Nova really wants to build a \u201cWorld Wide Database<\/a>,\u201d then he\u2019ll have to do more than swing for the fences and miss. I\u2019ll be waiting for a beta invite, and I\u2019ll let you know what I find out.<\/p>\n

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Nova Spivack, CEO and founder of Radar Networks, just released a preview (see above) announcing Twine 2.0, a semantic search engine to be released later this year. As Erick Schonfeld points out on TechCrunch, Twine hasn\u2019t managed to attract broad adoption. I tried it briefly when it came out, and I have to confess that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-data-mining"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smartdatacollective.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}