Literature Review: Semantic Web tools and technologies for creating and effective searching method based on the data available in social networking sites

This paper is a literature review on Semantic Web tools and technologies for creating and effective searching method based on the data available in Social Networking sites. We discuss the requirements of ontologies in the context of the Semantic Web. We survey tools for managing and applying ontologies. Advantages of using ontologies in both knowledge-base-style and database-style applications are compared. We explore the current state of the Semantic Web with a major focus on search based on Social Networking profiles. The paper includes a review of several papers on semantics and ontology based search, sections on query languages and knowledge base systems that enable Semantic Web search. Finally, we discuss the growth of Social Networking.