Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases.
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The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.
In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.
That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require.
I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
The Web as we've known it for a long time has been pages linking and pointing to other pages.
People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out e-commerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications.
The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.
The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.
What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.