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Search on the semantic web

2005

Abstract

Search engines have assumed a central role in the World Wide Web's infrastructure as its scale and impact have increased. In the Web's earliest days, people found pages of interest by navigating (quickly dubbed surfing) from pages whose locations they remembered or bookmarked. Rapid growth in the number of pages gave rise to Web directories like Yahoo that manually organized Web pages into a hierarchy of topics.