Comparative Study of Syntactic Search Engine and Semantic Search Engine: A Survey

Abstract

Search engine symbolizes an extremely powerful and valuable tool for fetching any sort of information from Internet. There has been numerous researches carried on search engines techniques, the major ones are syntactic and semantic. Referring to the Syntactic web, the results obtained are purely as per the keyword match. That is the query outputs numerous web pages against the keyword match that may not even be relevant or meaningful. Whereas, unlike the syntactic web, the semantic web is a revised or upgraded version of the web which produces quiet meaningful and specific output as it has the potential to comprehend the query effectively. Few examples of Semantic based search engines include Kosmix, Hakia, Cognition, Swoogle and Lexxe. Whereas syntactic based search engines are Google, Yahoo, Ask. The work performs a comparison amidst the performance of semantic and syntactic based search engine and evaluates them by employing certain queries.