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> > >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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