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RE: Semantic Web permathread, iteration n+1 (was Re:

• To: 'Chiusano Joseph' <chiusano_joseph@b...>, "DuCharme Bob (LNG-CHO)" <bob.ducharme@l...>
• Subject: RE: Semantic Web permathread, iteration n+1 (was Re: InfoWorld agrees with Elliote Rusty Harold)
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
• Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 09:02:44 -0500
• Cc: 'Bob Foster' <bob@o...>, XML Developers List <xml-dev@l...>

Hey, Cleveland rocks!  Google ranks.

len


From: Chiusano Joseph [mailto:chiusano_joseph@b...]

"DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO)" wrote:
> 
> >> Google is to "the semantic web" as CompuServe was to "the web".
> 
> >Google is to "the semantic web" as Cleveland is to Xanadu.
> 
> I'm not sure of the intent of this analogy--is it supposed to imply that
the
> semantic web is much more wonderful than Google, or that, like Xanadu
> (Coleridge's or Ted Nelson's), the semantic web is simply a
well-documented
> fantasy that won't ever exist, as opposed to an existing entity where
people
> get real work done, like Google and Cleveland?

Or simply that Google is mundane (apologies to those who live in
Cleveland) ;)

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