Structured Data on the Web

                          Alon Halevy
                             Google

Though search on the World-Wide Web has focused mostly on unstructured
text, there is an increasing amount of structured data on the Web and
growing interest in harnessing such data. I will describe several
current projects at Google whose overall goal is to leverage
structured data and better expose it to our users. These projects
include crawling the deep web, collecting and mining the HTML tables
on the Web, and computing aspects for search queries to better
organize answers. In each case, I will focus the lessons learned from
the project and the opportunities that lie ahead. I will also discuss
the opportunities relating to creating and managing data on the Web.