I wouldn't think Norvig won the fight. In fact, Google has been part of the charge to make it typical for federated content sites to provide structured data.

I wouldn't think Norvig won the fight. In fact, Google has been part of the charge to make it typical for federated content sites to provide structured data. For example, Google "recipe for pumpkin pie". You will see a bunch of recipes from a variety of sites. Go to one of them, and you'll see markup for schema.org's Recipe class (https://schema.org/Recipe https://schema.org/Recipe). A ton of Google's structured search results are powered by this. Norvig's concerns were valid, and over the years they have largely been overcome by a combination of tooling (CMS systems automatically emitting structured data alongside HTML) and incentivization (emitting structured data allowing one's site to be included in Google's structured search results).