Web 3.0 Applications

What will be the web 3.0 applications be like? The Internet world took a massive step when it shifted over from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0. Well now it's the time to look at the Web 3.0 concept. How will the Web 3.0 technology change the search engines? Let's take a look at the general ideas of the Web 3.0 applications in this article.We can just imagine or wonder how the Web 3.0 applications will be like. The drastic changes that Web 2.0 brought over to the world of Internet, leaves us dumbfounded on imagining what will be the changes in Web 3.0. Will the focus of the change mainly lie on the code or is it the applications or the interface part which will again be targeted. Before starting off our explanation on Web 3.0 concept, let us try to understand, what were the changes that the Web 2.0 technology brought in. This will help us in getting a clearer idea of the Web 3.0 concept.

Transition from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0

Web 1.0 was the age of static pages. You can compare it to a library which contains a lot of information, but you can just absorb it. There was no way in which the information you wanted to lend out, you could pass on to the world. HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) was the order of the day then. The basic language on which all web pages were designed. It left very little scope or no scope for the user to put in his input in the websites. This triggered the thought of Web 2.0. How about having websites, where users could contribute. After all the people who are the main assets to the world of Internet, then how can they be left out, when the websites are designed. HTML pages consisted of meta tags. This was what let the Internet search engines decide the relevancy of a web page with the searched keyword in an Internet Search Engine. But the keywords meta tags was exploited by the porn sites webmasters to such an extent, that it caused the search engines to question the relevancy of the meta keyword. They had to use complex algorithms to decide what should the search results be.

The focus was mainly on the source code or the language of the websites. The application part was left out. Then there was the advent of Web 2.0. New ways to search information and most importantly, the user contribution part. The world wide web, network of people, by people and for people. How could it grow endlessly without the contribution of its users. Social networking sites showed up. The easiest way for users to share their thoughts and to communicate. Users were now able to actually get into the cyber-space and expand their network. Next were blogs. The easiest way how users could share information with others. Even that small comments box, that you see at the bottom of this web page too, is one of the applications of Web 2.0. The APIs for the Web 2.0 applications were designed such. Search Engines like Google search engine, allowed new ways of Search Engine Optimization and brought in more and more relevant results. Wikis allowed new ways for users to share their own content on different subjects on the Web. Websites like Picassa and Flickr brought in new ways for users to share their pictures. The list of new applications were simply unending.

It was dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001, which brought in the advent of Web 2.0. What people considered as a flaw in the web world had actually brought in new dimensions to the world wide web. Then there were the banner ads. The banner ads allowed two websites to interconnect. Web development languages like PHP, Javascript, AJAX, etc. became the trend of the day for web sites developer. Websites were connected to each other. A link in one website could just let you travel to another website. However, another aspect of the same was that websites needed to be more secure. This caused the designing of websites to be cumbersome task. You could just not merely learn some HTML tags and create a website of your own.

Web 3.0 Concept

What was just explained was just a glimpse of the amount of changes that the Web 2.0 had brought in to the world of Internet. If this was the amount of changes that a dot com bubble could trigger, what would be the changes that the advent of Web 3.0 be like. What will the Web 3.0 applications mainly target on? The most important assets, the users are already a part of the Internet. What else can be the changes that Web 3.0 technology can bring in. Let's start off with the search engine part. Experts believe that the Web 3.0 technology will cause or make search engines, which are much more smarter than the recent search engines.

Artificial Intelligence will be the order of the day. Some assume that the search engines will be such that you enter a complex query in a very much human way of talking and get just one precise output. Let's take an example. Suppose you are looking for the nearest spot near your city to go for a trekking, but you also want certain special amenities that should be nearby. May be you are also looking for a trek party who are going on the same day and you want to ask if you want to join them. The search engines may allow you to type in a query like "I want to go for a trekking not very far away from my city. If there are any more people going in for trek on the same day, it would be better if I could join them and it would be really cool if I get some place after the trek to grab a couple of beers." The search engines may simply answer you by typing you a one line answer to a place where you can go for trekking, name and address of other people who are going for trek on the same day and also the address of the bar where you can go for the trek. Now the question is, where does the intelligence part arise. Well, here you did not mention the name of the city you are staying in, but the search results are still popping up. The search engine determines the place where you are staying. The other trek parties who are going in for trek may have searched for some other information, but the search engine simply keeps their records too and associates them with yours to give some relevant results. It may sound amazing, but many people would definitely consider it as a breach into their privacy.

But then again, these Web 3.0 applications that we are talking of are simply concepts. There is no proper justification or known fact that it is exactly going to take up this form. Some people however contradict that Web 3.0 will again focus on the code part or the language part. Needless to say, business is the main priority of all the web based applications. Companies build websites, store heavy amount of data on their servers and most of the times, when they have to make a major changes in their websites, they need to go offline. The Web 3.0 applications are considered to allow more security and allow companies to make changes into their websites, while not having to go offline. The concept is basically that Internet Search Engines will be able to read web pages as clearly as humans do. Thus, the result will be more and more relevant results.

All these Web 3.0 applications or rather Web 3.0 concepts that have been discussed here may or may not come exactly like what has been described. It may happen that we are not even being able to imagine the changes it will bring. The most important question will be if the change will be on the application part or on the coding part. Well, we have to just wait and watch for probably, when will technology experts finally give their verdict that Web 3.0 is on.
By Shah Newaz Alam