> The semantic web will never work because there is no way to enforce it. If the topic "horses" become popular people will just start tagging their spam pages with "horse" to try to get people to look at their pages.
There are plenty of trusted sources that would not spam their pages in this way. And if you spam too much, you risk getting dropped from search indexes, directories, links etc. because your source is just not useful.
Re:The Return of the 90s Web
by MaxBarraclough on Friday June 19, 2020 @08:29AM
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Dishonesty is a problem the web always faces, whether it's lying to a person or to a search-engine.
It's not as if the semweb people weren't aware of the problem, and it's not self-evidently a fatal blow to the idea.
As an example go look at the tags on soundcloud. People tag their songs with whatever they think will get people to take a listen.