The reason the semantic web failed is not only because "nobody makes money when things aren't locked down". It's also because nobody ain't got no time for gener

The reason the semantic web failed is not only because "nobody makes money when things aren't locked down". It's also because nobody ain't got no time for generating infinite amount of metadata when full-text search and indexing, with a judicious pinch of fuzzy matching, is both faster and more reliable. And LLMs, as much as I dislike the technological/societal consequences of their existence, are effectively further development of the latter, so they won't go away. Manual or even semi-automated cataloguing of websites (and further curating) of websites wasn't the answer to "how do I find stuff on the web" — Google was. Having standardized metadata format for menus is undoubtedly nice — but good luck making people to use it. You just can't. It really is both cheaper and easier for everyone involved to have website with arbitrary information layout scraped and fed into an LLM to extract relevant data: because what is "relevant" is different for everyone. You can't pre-ordain the full list of possible relevant metadata, and, again, good luck forcing everyone to fill out those 500 items-long forms. Ain't nobody got time for that.