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Edit: Fine, too rambly. Short version. Google Now or Siri are killing the page as a medium for certain types of content, and I would not be surprised if the in

• nl 12y ago
  This is inaccurate. Google's primary source for their knowledge graph is semi-structured data on web pages, not APIs. Notably, that claim 1200M "facts" (of which 8% have "high confidence") extracted by understanding web page DOM structure. That compares to 140M "facts" from human annotations on web pages, with 0.2% high confidence (ie, "semantic web"). Given that the premise of your point is wrong it seems your conclusions are likely to be too.
  • amk_ 12y ago
    My point is that the semi structured content that makes up theses web pages is being parsed out and displayed directly alongside search results. The parsed DOM is used as a defacto API, killing the need to provide any layout information whatsoever and killing page views, too. If this continues, many content providers (like lyrics sites) could transition to an information-serving model (API focused) and just forget about layout altogether.
    • nl 12y ago
      You realize there is a close correspondence between the DOM and the layout in most cases, right? Google read the CSS as well, and uses the visual features as signal what humans will see as important on the screen. That's impossible with APIs. There are specialised cases where Google does use APIs: public transport and airline times. They are very special cases though, and for broad web search it seems unlikely Google will follow that model.