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How Google Will Have Achieved The Semantic Web

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the perhaps-will-have-done dept.

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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  1. Semantic Web by ZeroExistenZ · · Score: 5, Informative
    Source

    Semantic Web, proper noun

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

    Or

    The Semantic Web is a project underway that intends to create a universal medium for the exchange of information by giving meaning, in a manner understandable by machines, to the content of documents on the web. Currently under the direction of its creator, Tim Berners-Lee of the World Wide Web Consortium, the Semantic Web extends the ability of the World Wide Web through the use of standards, markup languages and related processing tools.

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    I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
    1. Re:Semantic Web by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      You forget the original source: http://www.w3c.org/2001/sw/

  2. Yeah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    This article was posted last year.

  3. old article.... by TheClam · · Score: 5, Informative

    Anyone else notice that this is from July 26, 2002?

  4. Re:Heh by primordial+ooze · · Score: 2, Informative

    I was at the SGML '86 conference in Boston where the XML initial draft was presented.

    That was SGML '96 of course. D'oh!

  5. Re:Heh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    but I thought Microsoft was migrating to XML usage for a lot of their proprietary formats finally

    And they're using it as a data serialization format-- just a way to store some structured data. The nature of that structured data is fair to remain just as proprietary as if it were stored as a big slab of binary.

    The initial promise of XML was that it would serve not just as a popular library for serializing structured data, but as a common platform for communicating data.

  6. Other points of view... by Beige+Tangerine · · Score: 5, Informative
    Not necessarily all good points, but as always, it's hard to argue with "people lie" as an argument against anything: