(2002-07-30) b

A vision by Paul Ford of Google using Semantic Web technologies to provide a marketplace (EBay competitor).

Apr'03 update: maybe this should be the BootStrapping process? Also, note the Reputation Management section.

Also see Paul's own follow-up.

risk of Google becoming Evil
desire for P2P Search Engine of Meta Data - reminds me, at least today (Nov'2005), of my WikiGraph As Delicious Data experiment
Spreadsheet-s are important to the Internet - really sounds like a call for an AJAX/Rich Client for Structured Data, interfacing with a served-based Data Store/Taxonomy.

Nov'2005 update - is GoogleBase a step in this direction?

Edited: 2013-08-31 00:00:00 | Tweet this! | Search Twitter for discussion

Bill Seitz