Yes, I think the semantic web is suited to big companies with large teams and huge processing capabilities – they hoover the data up and add it to their own gra

Yes, I think the semantic web is suited to big companies with large teams and huge processing capabilities – they hoover the data up and add it to their own graph. As you've pointed out, the trend is for Google to pull it out of the website and display it on the results page, cutting the content creator out entirely. Building a tool or service on top of the semantic web is out of reach for most developers because of inconsistencies and complexities, unless they use the tools provided by the giants – and that goes directly against the principles of the semantic web. The exception here is niche use cases and academia working with huge datasets, where the semantic web seems to be incredibly useful.