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RE: RE: Semantic Web

• To: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>,"Mike Champion" <mc@x...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: RE: Semantic Web
• From: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>
• Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 15:29:39 -0700
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• Thread-topic: RE: Semantic Web

> > >Google is the semantic web.
> > >   http://ftrain.com/google_takes_all.html
> >
> > I find this article both interesting, because it does sketch
> > out a plausible scenario for the SW ... but infuriating
> > because it blithely assumes that Google pays attention to metadata.

> > The key to Google's success is that ignores what a page
> > says it is about (beyond the words themselves, of course)
> > and uses "observational metadata" based on what others  say about
it.

> semantic web where only metadata published by the owner of the content
> is available is next to useless. The value of the SemWeb is being able
> to obtain metadata about content from any source"

Exactly.  Data provided by the page owner is hardly "metadata".  It's
just extra crap wrapped in a meta tag :-)

Google does a lot of work to get at the stuff that *other* people are
saying about a page.  They record metadata from browsing patterns using
google toolbar; they record metadata from clickthrough on the google
search page; they collect metadata from hrefs on other pages.  And so
on.

That is *exactly* what semantic web is about.  When you do a google
search, you get the benefit of all of the metadata from *other*
independent parties.

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