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It was a solution looking for a problem.

• toddBarkus 9y ago
  I would offer more specifically that it was trying to solve a problem with existing workarounds for where the problem existed, without checking if anyone else cared enough to write more sgml
• ZenoArrow 9y ago
  Hardly. The promise is still there, but there are barriers in place to get there. One of the most useful aspects of the semantic web is how it enhances the search for information. Some web citizens have become conditioned to see Google as the pinnacle of what we can achieve through search, but we can do a lot better. Let's use an example to illustrate this. Imagine a presidential election was taking place and you want to understand the positions of the candidates on topics that matter to you. Let's say foreign policy was something you were interested in, including their proclivity for war. By allowing for searching on a richer set of metadata you can more easily access the information about the positions of these candidates, without the distortions of Google's page rank algorithms. Think of it like treating the information of the web as a database you can query more directly. That's the main promise of the semantic web.