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• Subject: Re: Semantic Web permathread, iteration n+1 (was Re: InfoWorld agrees with Elliote Rusty Harold)
• From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>
• Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 19:17:01 -0400
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Joshua Allen wrote:

  > The thread that provoked my response was suggesting that Google is
> somehow achieving the vision of semantic web.  Google may be
> accomplishing great things, but what it is achieving should not be
> confused with the vision of semantic web.  Regardless of how realistic
> that vision is, you would have to revise the vision of "semantic web" to
> honestly claim that Google is achieving that vision.
> 

Just so, but others are using Google data to do things that start to 
edge into Semantic Web-like territory (like the TAP project).

So there is hope.

Cheers,

Tom P

-- 
Thomas B. Passin
Explorer's Guide to the Semantic Web (Manning Books)
http://www.manning.com/catalog/view.php?book=passin

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