The Top 4 Myths About Semantic Web – WebNewser.

The Internet is often prone to confusion. All this immediacy and constant status updating can leave people lost when it comes to deciphering the true game changers, likeSemantic Web. Will this new, smarter technology affect the way you work online? Yes. Is it all about metadata? Not exactly. Here are the top four widespread myths about Semantic Web (and why you should care):

1.It’s artificial intelligence.

The machines themselves aren’t the ones getting smarter. Instead, we’remaking the content easier for the machines tointerpret.

2.It’s just research. Nothing concrete has been made with semantic web yet.

Quite the contrary. Many different companies, like Huffington Post and Google, have already jumped on the semantic web wagon and are seeing a lot of success.

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