Comparative study of semantic and keyword based search engines

Abstract

Day by day, the data on the web becomes very huge which makes it difficult to find relevant information. Search engines are one of the successful factors that can retrieve information from the Web. The process of seeking information by search engines helps users find information on the internet, however it is not an easy task to find the exact information from this massive data available on the Web. Semantic Web technology has an ability to focus on metadata rather than syntax, which made the semantic search engines to search for the meaning of keywords instead of the keyword syntax. Consequently, an effective role of performance in conventional search engines can be achieved by rising the accuracy of information returned by a search query. In this paper, a survey for syntactic-based search engines and semantic-based search engines are studied, a comprehensive comparison between the two is presented, finally, their technologies are compared and discussed.