OutWit Hub, currently in beta, might be a step towards a semantic browser. You can find more information here and the Firefox Add-on page here. The applications are countless from extracting photos of human anatomy in a snap, to building a database of medical contacts. If you need a list of hospitals with their specialties, you can use OutWit to grab this information automatically from Wikipedia and easily produce an Excel table out of it. ...

Scienceroll Search is a personalized medical search engine powered by Polymeta.com. You can choose which databases to search in and which one to exclude from your list. It works with well-known medical search engines and databases and we’re totally open to add new ones or remove those you don’t really like. Now we updated the list of databases and created some new boxes as well. So we have a Basic Health Information box for those ...

WikiProfessional was officially launched some weeks ago. So I think it’s time to say a few words about it. WikiProfessional is a new kind of a database. It searches in several sources and helps us how to get the most valuable information. Redundancy of the same facts and opinions within a myriad of web-pages has artificially inflated the size of the Internet. To get a million search results on a query without the ability to ...

Yale University Science Libraries came up with a great idea. From now, you can contact one of their librarians through Meebo, GTalk, AIM, MSN, etc. Here is a screenshot of the widget: Reference service is intended to assist the academic research of students, faculty, and staff of Yale University. If you are not affiliated with Yale, we can reply to your question only if it concerns the University or some unique resource of the University ...

I’ve been playing with Powerset for a while. It seems to be a service that can take us to the world of semantic web or web 3.0. It uses Wikipedia and Freebase as resources. The main idea is to ask questions instead of search for terms. Let’s give it a try. If you make a search for “Who discovered penicillin” in Google, you will see this (Alexander Fleming Discovers Penicillin) and many more similar articles. ...