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I think the semantic web never worked because of seo spam. The closest it got to adoption in any form was the keywords meta tag. We know how that ended up.

• acdha 8y ago
  Less that and more the combination of bad tools, labyrinthine “standards” which were usually poorly implemented by said tools, and lack of concrete use-cases. Almost nobody had a case where implementing it showed a clear business value so most of the “you should do this” advocacy was along the lines of “this will become useful later” and that was a hard sell because it took many years before you could go to a webpage, read some decent instructions, mark something up, and run it through a validator or another client and get the expected data back out.
  • namedgraph 8y ago
    That is exactly what is happening: people and companies marking up their pages with JSON-LD and RDFa metadata because it impacts SEO: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-structured-data https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-struc...
    • acdha 8y ago
      That was my point: to the extent that the semantic web has happened at all, it's because someone can go to their boss and say “If we do this, here's a non-hypothetical benefit we'll see immediately” and because Google invested in high-quality documentation and tools which make it easy to do correctly.