Web 3.0 vs. Web 2.0: what are the significant differences.

TL;DR: Because decentralization is a trending topic in the tech ecosystem, not just a trend, it has become a movement where every day we see more and more discussions on how best to achieve a completely decentralized world. In this article, we have discussed the Characteristics of both web technologies with a focus on the features of Web 3.0.

Starting with Web 2.0

Web 2.0 was an upgrade from the read-only web, Web 1.0 n the first version, the pages had static design and non-interactive pages. The emergence of Web2.0 was controversial, but that is one of the things Web 3.0 supersede this version with. It is often referred to as the writable web, and with it came the era of blogging and interactive web design. Web-users could interact with the sites, put out content and receive feedback.

This web version made it easy for world people to access an abundance of information. This information could also be different people. However, this easy way of sharing also made it easy for fake news to spread and appropriate someone else’s work. Google was a huge catalyst to the propagation of Web 2.0 technology.

The web 2.0 era is characterized by the different technologies introduced during that era. They include

• Blogs
• Wikis
• Social networks
• Instant messaging
• Auction websites
• Professional networking

What is Web 3.0?

The Web 3.0 internet is decentralized. It has often been referred to as the future of the world wide web. It was Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the worldwide web, who first called Web3 “The Semantic Web.” It is a web that operates on a set of preset instructions that give web searches a higher accuracy and make creating web apps even more manageable. Data is organized to make it easier for computers to read, interpret and sort through. The idea is this. For web3, when you need to search, you do not have to narrow it down. When you type in a sentence or a word, it brings up the best possible answers irrespective of how complicated the search words are.

Cons of the Web 3.0 technology

Like all growing technologies, Web 3.0 has a couple of challenges concerning implementation.

The first would be the size of the internet. The internet is enormous and contains billions of data and pages. Successfully dealing with this amount of data is challenging and tasking.

Another problem is the vagueness of queries that have been input by users. It makes providing intelligent answers complex; dealing with uncertainty where data is similar but not exact poses some challenges. Another challenge is navigating inconsistencies in the data available. These inconsistencies in data lead to contradictions and wrong predictions.

The last challenge I’ll be discussing is inaccurate data. The AI sorts through available data, and if wrong data has been provided, it will return that data to any query that requires it. The AI cannot tell if the information is inaccurate if all the provided data is wrong.

We are comparing the features of both webs.

The five main features of Web 3.0 include:

Semantic web.

This is a more intelligent web that interacts with content based on comprehension and not keywords and tags like in Web 2.0.

Connectivity

This one involves the accessibility of information. The available information as a result of semantic metadata is more connected. The connectivity is directly symbiotic with the user experience. Web 3.0 offers users data that are instantly customized to fit their needs. When you search for something on Web 3.0, the results you would receive are closer to real-life situations because the predictions are provided based on intelligence gathered from users daily activities

Graphics

In gaming, e-commerce, art, maps, and others platforms that require higher resolution and quality images. Web 3.0 supports the use of three-dimensional images.

Ubiquity

Content can be accessed and made available by multiple applications. All users are directly connected to the web.

Artificial intelligence (AI)

Web 3.0 uses AI to select from the multitude of available information the way the human mind will. It studies the behavioral patterns of the users and predicts them based on these patterns.

The significant differences between both webs are the points of authority. While Web 2.0 has centralized control, i.e., a single point of control, Web 3.0 has a decentralized authority. The table below compares the major features of both technologies.

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