[HN Gopher] Google exec Peter Norvig challenges Berners-Lee (2006)
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       Google exec Peter Norvig challenges Berners-Lee (2006)
        
       Author : ColinWright
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2021-10-24 09:51 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | mark_l_watson wrote:
       | This was in 2006. In 2002 I had lunch with Peter and when I
       | mentioned the Semantic Web, he was not enthusiastic.
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       | I would argue that today Google's Knowledge Graph, DBPedia, and
       | WikiData are all successful projects.
        
       | oh_sigh wrote:
       | Well, it looks like Norvig won that fight. Now I guess the
       | question is was Norvig prescient or did his reluctance to get
       | involved in the semantic web given his position of power set the
       | mood for google and the other big players?
        
       | bravogamma wrote:
       | In reading this article, I found myself first completely agreeing
       | with Berners-Lee, and then, completely agreeing with Norvig. I
       | would love to see Berners-Lee vision come to life; however, I am
       | not sure how to overcome the human vice elements Norvig is
       | talking about.
        
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