Web 3.

0 - A Brief Overview

Introduction
Web 3.0 is the new generation of the World Wide Web, through which Web 2.0
technology joins hands with the Semantic Web, making it possible for humans as
well as machines to access and use the information stored in the Web. With Web
3.0, machines will be able to perform tasks requiring human intelligence,
reducing our time and effort on the Internet dramatically.
Web 3.0, aiming at making the Internet a better, smarter network, is a precursor to
the fully semantic Web, and successor to the Web 2.0.But Web 3.0 will give
Internet itself intelligence by making the machines-programs that access data
(search engine bots, etc.,) -understand what the data itself is. This will make them
dig up the best information from the Web for our needs and be able to contribute a
lot better than they do now.

What is Semantic Web?

The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the
semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible
for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use
the Web content. It derives from W3C director Tim Berners -Lee vision of the
Web as a universal medium for data ,information and knowledge exchange.

Need for Web 3.0

When we search in Google for particular information, most of what we get on the
first page are the links to websites without any information useful to us. To obtain
the Website that we need, we might have to use different keywords or go to the
second or third SERP. Without using our intelligence, we can't get the required
result. Programs cannot see what people can.
Google is a dumb machine discharging its bots throughout the Web, scanning for
keywords. When it finds a keyword in any site already indexed by it, it will
present the link to you. It is up to you to decide if the site is actually useful or not.
Hence, most of the time, the first search results of Google are not what you want;
they either contain technical jargon allover or advertisements, not the specific
thing you want.
With the advent of Web 3.0, this is all going to change. Web 3.0 aims to make the
Internet itself a huge database of information, accessible to machines as well as
humans. When Web 3.0 becomes popular, we will have a data-driven web,
enabling us unearth information faster from the net.

You can get the machines to contribute to your needs, by searching for,
organizing, and presenting information from the Web. That means, with Web 3.0
you can be fully automated on the Internet. Besides this, with machine
intelligence, you can achieve tasks like the following very easily: automating
share transactions; checking and deleting unwanted emails; creating and updating
websites; and booking your movie tickets, airplane tickets, etc.
Web 3.0 is going to be actually the era of artificial  intelligence  enabled programs
sprawling the Web.

Semantic Web Enabling Technologies

Web 3.0 technologies help create the Semantic Web by generating a worldwide
database from the data currently scattered across the Internet. We have a million
data formats for even a single simple task. This is because there are too
many applications on every genre, and each of them creates its own data format,
which is hidden from the other applications. The major task of Web 3.0
technologies is to unify all these formats, and create a common, extensible format
that can understand any application data. Only when the data is not hidden from
the machines, can the machines do anything productive.

Purpose
The main purpose of the Semantic Web is driving the evolution of the current
Web by allowing users to use it to its full potential, thus allowing them to find,
share, and combine information more easily. Humans are capable of using the
Web to carry out tasks such as finding the Irish word for "folder," reserving a
library book, and searching for a low price for a DVD. However, machines cannot
accomplish all of these tasks without human direction, because web pages are
designed to be read by people, not machines. The semantic web is a vision of
information that can be interpreted by machines, so machines can perform more
of the tedious work involved in finding, combining, and acting upon information
on the web. The Semantic Web is regarded as an integrator across different
content, information applications and systems, it also provides mechanisms for
the realization of Enterprise Information Systems.

Uses of Web 3.0

Web 3.0 contributes extremely to the development of the current Internet.
Companies like ZCubes, ZOHO, Google, etc., which specialize in Web 3.0, have
built applications to incorporate the semantic revolution of the Web.

The Web 3.0 enabled technologies include the online applications  (or web

services), which can do virtually anything. For instance, if you go to the ZCubes
website, you can create custom web pages that can contain text, spreadsheets, live
calculation scripts, music, pictures, live videos, live websites, and much more.
You can even hand write on the page, and create your own high quality vector
drawings. All these features can be embedded on a single page by drag and drop,
and the product (a normal HTML file) can be saved on your computer or
published on the Web.

Conclusion
Very few people knew ‘Web 2.0’ existed and talks of Web 3.0 have already
started. It is the era of new age browsing using new age Internet technology. So
that we understand, Web 3.0 better we will understand, what is Web 2.0 first. Web
2.0 is associated with web applications, which facilitate interactive information
sharing, user-centered design and collaboration on the web, rather World Wide
Web. Web 3.0 is called as "Semantic Web". It is a term coined by Tim Berners-
Lee, the inventor of World Wide Web. To simplify it further, the semantic web is
going to be a place, where machines will be able to read web pages much like
humans. It is going to be a place, where Internet search engines along with
software agents will troll the Internet and find what the user is exactly looking
for. "Web 3.0 is a set of standards that turn the web into one big database". With
the Web 3.0 there is going to be intelligent search and behavioral advertising
among other things.