From 3c57f71b66b45a0a35e6265a55daab5c2cdddf17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pierre-Antoine Champin The Web is made of documents like web pages, API data, images and so on that are linked together. They are
- information that anyone with the proper authorization can access to. Documents can be found everywhere
+ information that anyone with the proper authorization can access. Documents can be found everywhere
on the web and we often have to follow the links between them in order to find relevant information. The
web is therefore browsable but browsing it manually can be very long to find what we are searching for.
That's why search engines have been invented. They browse the web for us by following the
- links they find in documents so they can tell us where to get documents about a particular subject.
+ links, they find in documents so they can tell us where to get documents about a particular subject.
Search engines are doing indexing. Indexing is a largely used mechanism that allow to find data faster thanks to
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Introduction
traditionnal Web except that information is described to machines so they can "understand" what documents and the
things they contain are about. This way we can directly get the information we need without having to look at the
content of documents. This is made possible thanks to the Resource Description Framework (RDF). On this improved Web,
- knowledge can be deducted automatically by machines. For instance, if a document is about a person and the machines
- know a person is a human, they can deduce that this person is a human. Search engines can benefit a lot from the web
+ knowledge can be deduced automatically by machines. For instance, if a document is about a person and the machines
+ know that a person is a human, they can deduce that this person is a human. Search engines can benefit a lot from the web
of data and some engines already take advantage of it to better respond to our queries.