How Google Will Have Achieved The Semantic Web

alfaromeo points to a business feature (mysteriously available already) by one Paul Ford called "August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web." So read on for a bit of potential history from five years in the future.

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Google 2012: The Singularity

[Anonymous Coward]

How Google become self-aware and took over the world.

Re:Google 2012: The Singularity

[nz_mincemeat]

I would put $5 with Google in a Google vs Skynet bout.

I can see many uses for this semweb stuff

[CrackedButter]

So, you're a small African republic in the midst of a revolution with a megalomaniac leader, an expatriate Russian scientist in your employ, and 6 billion in heroin profits in your bank account, and you need to buy some weapons-grade plutonium.
Who does it for you?
Google Personal Agent
Now there's innovation and balls in one sentence! I take it the War on terror is won in 2009 or these sorts of semweb transaction become the norm. How *could* Amazon and Ebay compete when it comes to selling nuclear weapons?

Who wrote the article?

[CrackedButter]

Hari Seldon?

Finance Transfer Protocol?

[Scythr0x0rs]

Finance Transfer Protocol?

They need to think about this more.
'FTP me $25'
Then you find a 15mb top resolution scan of a couple of green bills in your /pub folder.

Re:Heh

[phats garage]

I'd have to say "Microsoft Bob" peaked pretty early.

woah

[underpar]

so like.. we're looking at the past and future. That's far out, dude.

Re:Heh

[Profane MuthaFucka]

Careful, they might implement their XML with just one tag, called 'data', and just stick their regular old Word documents into that as an encoded binary.

Re:Semantic Web

[morcheeba]

An attempt to apply the Dewey Decimal system to an orgy.

I just filed my orgy under 126 -- see it is useful!!