By Stan Schroeder

Mashable: The Social Media Guide

Whenever there’s talk about a semantic search engine or the semantic web in general, the term “semantic” is used to describe two quite different, unrelated concepts.

One concept has to do with adding metadata to the structure of the web, which should increase the overall organization of the bulk of data that comprises the Internet, and help machines (search engines, for example) find, share, and combine this data in a way that makes more sense to humans.

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