Just recently Google launched another interesting service called “In Quotes”. It delivers quotes from stories linked to from Google News and users can compare opinions of e.g. politicians in a very comfortable way.
If a closer look is taken at the system, one can see that any person whose quotes are listed has got a URI: Barack Obama has got the uniform “qsid” tPjE5CDNzMicmM.
It seems like “qsid” stands for “Quad Store ID” which would perfectly support such a URI based system.
Does Google slowly approximate to the Semantic Web?
Isn’t quote source id more likely?
I think you’re seeing things here. I can’t see any sign of a quad store. To me it’s more likely that it just means “quotes ID”.
Simon
I guess it could also stand for Quote Store ID?
Thanks for the scepticism. Hmm, as I said: I am just hypothesising.
A few things about Google that are repeatedly forgotten re. the Semantic Web:
1. R. Guha created MCF (Meta Content Framework) which became RDF while at Apple prior to joining Netscape
2. R. Guha worked at Cyc prior to Apple.
Enough said. There are no mysteries to the “Semantic Web” re. Google. The issue is more about strategic relevance and/or competitve opportunity costs i.e., is the Document Web where they want to live or do they want to drop down to the more granular and deeper Web of Linked Data.
Whenever they make this move, the challenge will be more to do with Content Management (note: MCF was about “Content”) skills combined with a good old traditional Entity-Attribute-Value + Classe & Relationships DBMS model skills.
Kingsley
Thanks Kingsley. I think the bigger the LOD Cloud the more it will be unavoidable for Google and other Silos to open up.