A super-fast RDF search engine have been developed in Ireland. At least, that's what we can read from Electric News.
Professor Stefan Decker, director of DERI (Galway's Digital Enterprise
Research Institute) is definitely enthusiastic about its team work. The
importance of this breakthrough cannot be overestimated. These results enable
us to create web search engines that
really deliver answers instead of links. The technology also allows us to
combine information from the web, for example the engine can list all
partnerships of a company even if there is no single web page that lists all of
them.
By the way, what is RDF ??? Wikipedia gives the following definition : Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a family of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specifications originally designed as a metadata model but which has come to be used as a general method of modeling information, through a variety of syntax formats.
RDF is often used for disseminating news article summaries and sharing weblog content. So this technologies will be able to gather information from deep web, link them together, and brong more sense to each piece of information, , as Reportlinkler does.
We are quite impatient to see how this technology will change the semantic search engine landscape. We will keep an eye on it !