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Semantic Web and DERI Galway appear on Slashdot:

"Super-Fast RDF Search Engine Developed"

TheRegister is reporting that Irish researchers have developed a new high-speed RDF search engine capable of answering search queries with more than seven billion RDF statements in mere fractions of a second.

'The importance of this breakthrough cannot be overestimated,' said Professor Stefan Decker, director of DERI. 'These results enable us to create web search engines that really deliver answers instead of links. The technology also allows us to combine information from the web, for example the engine can list all partnerships of a company even if there is no single web page that lists all of them.'

From DERI press release [ "Semantic World Record at DERI Galway!" ]:

Andreas Harth and Aidan Hogan, key researchers on the Semantic Web Search Engine project, have been working on the project for about three years are excited about the prospects: "These were the fruits of hard labor" says Andreas Harth, "I am excited about the prospects ahead. We are currently working on realizing inferencing - making the web truly intelligent - and we have results already."