Dictionaries, encyclopedias, and many other repositories aimed at defining the real world are structured as a set of concepts (with identifiable keywords in each language). Real world things may be classified into these concepts. Internet is a huge repository of content which is made publicly available as a set of web pages that may be visually rendered by browsers. However, web pages do not usually associate common semantics to its content in an explicit form. This is the reason why Internet search engines have been traditionally limited to syntactic searches based on the included words. [...]
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