> The semantic web inexplicably dies "Inexplicably" except for the fact that it doesn't actually work - outside purely charitable and socially-oriented efforts

> The semantic web inexplicably dies "Inexplicably" except for the fact that it doesn't actually work - outside purely charitable and socially-oriented efforts (e.g. Wikidata), there's no incentive for web sites to provide machine-readable, "semantic" information, and quite a bit of incentive not to. And Google didn't "create" the world's largest ad platform, either - they bought it (DoubleClick) and merged it with their technically-superior advertising offer.