] "By doing this we were taking a couple of baby steps down
] the road of what some have called the semantic Web -- a
] Web ... where computers can understand, at some level,
] the meaning and context of a Web page or blog post," he
] explained in an e-mail.
]
] Cleveland said in addition to using RSS metadata, the
] company planned to add ways to factor in Web traffic
] statistics. "We would look not only at what was written,
] but what was viewed and how people got there," he said.
]
] Cleveland said the technology could allow Web surfers to
] find not just breaking news stories, but those highly
] ranked by the weblogging community. In addition, those
] stories could be accompanied by the best comments made by
] popular webloggers, or those writing in a certain
] language or from a particular country.
]
] "You could search for 'U.S. invades Iraq' and get instant
] worldwide reaction," Cleveland said. "And then you could
] search, sort, filter or group (those posts) using
] metadata. Here's what people in France are saying."

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