This looks like something many people dream of, a way to exclude all the junk sites you have to wade though
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5013146.stmMuch of the talk at the 2006 World Wide Web conference has been about the technologies behind the so-called "semantic web".
On the semantic web all of the data about the hotels, for example, will be made available, but in addition it will be classified and then "tagged" with common descriptions to tell computers what they are looking at.
For example, you could ask your search engine to find a hotel that costs less than £50 a night, that has a large swimming pool, and is less than five minutes walk from the beach.
The semantic search engine would then cross-reference all of the information about hotels in Majorca, including checking whether the rooms are available, and then bring back the results which match your query.
Although this improves on what we have now, the next step is even more intelligent.
"Once you have all of that data on the web in a form that a machine can understand, then you can start having services like a personal agent that picks a holiday for you or even negotiates the price on your behalf," explains Professor Hall
Lets hope the dream lives up to the expectations
