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The semantic web did work. Google was able to enrich their own searches and bought a large semantic web called Freebase and incrementally enriched their web sea
by zitterbewegung 3y ago
The semantic web did work. Google was able to enrich their own searches and bought a large semantic web called Freebase and incrementally enriched their web searches . When they can’t show you a relative ad they want to capture your search regardless and show you relevant info so you don’t switch providers.
- jerf 3y agoIf the "semantic web" worked, they wouldn't have had to buy a startup. You don't need a startup to read kindly-provided, accurate, well-categorized RDF tuples out of a web page. One of my favorite ironies of the "semantic web" is almost every story cited as a success story by its advocates is in fact a failure story, in that it involves somebody having to do something that wouldn't have been necessary if the semantic web actually existed. By the way, LLMs completely finish killing off the semantic web. The semantic web will never take the form of the entire world providing nice public RDF snippets. You "just" feed the real-world goo into an LLM (or its sequels) and extract what you need. It turns out that it was literally easier to solve the language comprehension problem than to implement the semantic web. (Even if you don't consider the language comprehension problem solved yet, we are well on track to having it solved before the semantic web is implemented.)
- zitterbewegung 3y agoNot claiming they even invested in RDF tuples it clearly was that the ability to understand the internet meaning of sites and so forth required freebase and enriching their web results . It took a large engineering force to actually make it work.