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Google may eventually be displaced as the pre-eminent brand on the internet by a company that harnesses the power of next-generation web technology, the inventor of the World Wide Web has said.
The search giant had developed an extremely effective way of searching for pages on the internet, Tim Berners-Lee said, but that ability paled in comparison to what could be achieved on the "web of the future", which he said would allow any piece of information — such as a photo or a bank statement — to be linked to any other.
[edited by: encyclo at 12:35 am (utc) on Mar. 14, 2008]
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One example frequently given is of typing a street address which, if it had "semantic data" built into it, would link directly to a map showing its location, dispensing with the need to go to a site like Google `maps, type in the address, get the link and paste it into a document or e-mail.
Who provides the map and connection in that scenario? Maybe Google.
If Yahoo can demonstrate that such support has commercial advantages, Google will be quick to take notice.
TheRegister: "You'll have to figure out something Google can't figure out if your research is going to be worth anything. How will you do that, exactly?"TimBL: "It's about much more than people defending against abusing the system. There are a huge number of opportunities that will make the industry work more efficiently."
I'm sure TimBL is a lovely chap, and inventing the Web is a remarkable achievement. But let's be honest: he's held back development of the Web for years, in favour of his grand, utopian project despite its obviously questionable practicality. For me, he jumped the shark years ago.
