[microformats-discuss] FYI: two posting about the Semantic Web, the "SynWeb", scraping and microformats

[Scott Reynen]

Ian Hickson wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Danny Ayers wrote:
>
>> But the point I was trying to make was that Google Local or whatever
>> doesn't (as far as I know) get people to look through all their
>> documents to find the data for every query, they use some sort of
>> database.
>
> Google caches the data on its servers for performance reasons, of  
> course,
> but the data's primary format is HTML on the Web.

Not for long, apparently:

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-10-25-n57.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dirson/55908013/
http://google-blog.dirson.com/post.new/0292/
http://www.seweso.com/blog/2005/10/google-base.php

Peace,
Scott