Tiny niches? All the data tables in Wikipedia; Apple acquires Siri; Google acquires Freebase; the Google and Bing search indexes, .... This story is not over.

Tiny niches? All the data tables in Wikipedia; Apple acquires Siri; Google acquires Freebase; the Google and Bing search indexes, .... This story is not over. What those have to do with it? I mean, I don't know about the data tables in Wikipedia, but I'm pretty sure neither Siri, nor Google / Bing etc use RDF for their metadata and search indexes. It's been 15+ years now, the Semantic Web didn't caught on, and it has been shown to be misguided in the general scheme of things (could work for some specialized cases, where you control all the data, but even then, neither the tools nor the performance and market readiness are there). Being able to cater for semantics != using RDF and TBL's "semantic web" notions. And, yes, I mean SPARQL. Was working with a team back at uni that integrated XQuery with RDF/SPARQL and have them a little confused in my mind.