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Re:Google Announces Support for Microformats and RDFa by mark_h on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @06:49PM (#606236)
It's also interesting timing, coming as it does on the heels of their "Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data" paper.

I'd have to re-read it to comment, but at least some felt that it was being rather dismissive of semantic-web structures: http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/275/

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Re:Google Announces Support for Microformats and RDFa by rgrieselhuber on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @07:48PM (#606283)
I've always thought they were a little too dismissive of semantic web structures, Peter Norvig in particular. But I also thought it was a ploy.
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Re:Google Announces Support for Microformats and RDFa by smanek on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @09:51PM (#606388)
I think the problem is that the semantic web is fundamentally very similar to the sort of 'logical ai' (Prolog, Cyc, etc) that is often blamed for the AI winter.

Eliezer made a fairly convincing argument that a lot of this is the result of clever marketing campaign a few decades ago (http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/11/logical-or-conn.html)

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Re:Google Announces Support for Microformats and RDFa by ubernostrum on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @11:40PM (#606476)
Well, so far nobody's really addressed the known issues with self-supplied metadata (see http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm for one good and old roundup)...
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