Re: MIT's Technology Review Article
On 27 Sep 2004, at 10:35, cklester wrote:
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> posted by: cklester <cklester at yahoo.com>
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> Kat wrote:
<snip> <<== err, is that rss, or xml or sgml, or what? </joke>
> > Some data is in such form on webpages that not even Google indexes it,
> > such as valid data buried in javascript code or linked framesets.
> > Creating a whole new XML file, and having a XML tag on each word in
> > every existing file, would bloat the internet to a crawl. I've seen
> > 5K XML semantic files that had nothing to say.
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> > to say. Literally. But even files which do appear online often disappear
> > after a month, a year,, sometimes a few hours. If there was an automagic
> > tagger built, so as to not use a human to tag a file which has a lifetime of
> > mere hours, then why not dispense with tagging, and move that tagger to the
> > recipient, and not spew XML/semantics all over the internet?
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> Not quite the efficiency needed to make the "internet a database." :/
Nowhere near, see here:
Sept 30, 2004
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3415331
It may take 2 minutes to dl the page on dialup, how appropriate is that?
Kat
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