Yesterday, Google – Bing and Yahoo announced their new initiative for semantic web; www.schema.org

Schema.org contains a list of item types to mark the content on pages. Some of the types are Persons, Books, Places, Music Bands, Events, Organizations, and so on. These item types are not solving problems for categorizing the real world content, they are just search-trends centric. Besides it’s their standard, it’s not open standard. How we can be sure that this initiative will be widespread and permanent?

I think Schema.org is not a big thing for Semantic Web, also these search engines indirectly agree that they couldn’t afford to understand content semantically. They need our help to improve their products. They stated that Schema.org’s data will facilitate for semantic applications, but how? Without a crawler how we can access to semantically coded content?

Their approach is based on their needs and lack of their algorithms. Webmasters have to code pages with Schema.org standards -also recoding existing pages- so this is too much work in order to solve their products’ issues.

Good try… It’s not Web 3.0, but Web 0.1 beta.