A Case Study on Semantic Web Search using Ontology Modeling

The Semantic Web works on the existing Web which presents the meaning of information as well-defined vocabularies understood by the people. Semantic Search, at the same time, works on improving the accuracy of a search by understanding the intent of the search and providing contextually relevant results. The paper describes a semantic approach towards web search through a PHP application. The goal was to parses through a user’s browsing history and return semantically relevant web pages for the search query provided. The browser used for this purpose was Mozilla Firefox. The user’s history was stored in a MySQL database, which, in turn, was accessed using PHP. The ontology, created from the browsing history, was then parsed for the entered search query and the corresponding results were returned to the user providing a semantically organized and relevant output.