Re:Show HN: How I turned an old book into a (barely) profita...
by pretoriusB on Thursday December 27, 2012 @03:45PM
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>I'd load it up with all the "semantic web" style things I could find. http://schema.org type of stuff.
Why though? I think the manual "semantic web markup" is a failed promise, more than anything.
The idea was flawed from the start for general web use (for one, you cannot trust content providers to add relevant semantic info, either because it's in their interest NOT to do so --e.g SEO spam--, or because they are not competent or lazy). Plus, the tools never materialised.
Why though? I think the manual "semantic web markup" is a failed promise, more than anything.
The idea was flawed from the start for general web use (for one, you cannot trust content providers to add relevant semantic info, either because it's in their interest NOT to do so --e.g SEO spam--, or because they are not competent or lazy). Plus, the tools never materialised.
It's another case of "worse is better".