The Evolving Web

Question 1

Appification of the web

Answer 1

The trend for information that was previously accessed through conventional web pages and a browser, to be accessed via dedicated apps on mobile devices

Question 2

Context-aware Search

Answer 2

A search in which context is used as criteria to make search results relevant

Question 3

Mediated Search

Answer 3

A search that is mediated, or ‘managed’, by humans rather than by reliance on algorithms. the search engine acts more like an online directory

Question 4

Profiled Search

Answer 4

A search in which the results are customised by search engine to match ones profile of interests and activities

Question 5

Sematic Search

Answer 5

A search built on the idea of the ‘semantic web’, in which computers will have the ability to interpret metadata on web pages that will allow them to navigate and filter the web intelligently, without human intervention

Question 6

The ‘internet of things’

Answer 6

The concept that more and more devices and objects are connected to the internet, with the ability to communicate with other devices and objects