Andrew Tomkins, Chief Scientist of Yahoo Search on how semantic technology has improved search Bambi Francisco was recently at the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference where she interviewed Andrew Tomkins, Chief Scientist of Yahoo Search. Among the questions asked was how is Yahoo’s search positioned against the newcomers WolframAlpha and Bing?Here's the interview, partially edited. BF: At the end of the day, the purpose of semantic technology within Yahoo Search is to really improve search results and the search experience. So how has it really improved Yahoo Search?AT: It's been pretty dramatic so far. Yahoo has been pretty aggressive in doing semantic technology through a couple of programs. The primary one in terms of getting data in is something that we call "Search Monkey." What we have been doing is developing a set of vocabulary ...   [ Read more ]