28.03.08

The following information specific to the Russian market is adapted from an article by the business publication “Vzglyad,” which was produced largely from this useful article from the Daily Telegraph.

Certain aspects of the semantic web - what researchers are calling the new highly integrated Internet that will someday allow us to live our lives almost entirely online - are finding thier way into Russia, but the process is slow. A new search engine called Picollator.ru, for instance, is able to process large amounts of multimedia data, has been introduced to the Russian Internet. Its technology allows searches for people’s faces through facial recognition software crossed with search engine software, which finds faces similar to the searched face.

Experts explain that many existing research companies already changed their focus to semantic search. Whether it will be in demand by users, the question still remains. Technology development is one thing, mass use is another. Also, it is very important how leading companies will make this technology understandable and how other Internet-resources will be able to adopt to it.

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