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Yes. It was called the semantic web, but it never took off.
by hannob 7y ago
Yes. It was called the semantic web, but it never took off.
- z3t4 7y agoThe semantic web failed due to HTML being a format for humans. Where humans need to enter for them unnecessary extra data so the machines could understand what the humans already understood. There should be a (URL maybe?) scheme for machines generated by machines with standard properties like open hours, site category, etc.
- blacksmith_tb 7y agoThere's still some attempt being made, for example with json-ld[1]. Ultimately any kind of microdata has the same problems that OpenGraph or ye olde meta keywords etc. tags did, GOOG and Co. need to parse the human-readable content to confirm any extra data for bots is not a trick. Which tends to encourage them to just ignore it, at best it's a slightly more structured version of what they're scraping from the page, at worst it's a lie. 1: https://json-ld.org/ https://json-ld.org/