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.

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?

Re:Heh

[phats garage]

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

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.