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[Marcus G. Daniels]

Michael Orshan wrote:
> Now just because some content is out there doesn't mean people will flock to
> it.  That requires advertising and traffic.  
One thing that makes me a little cranky is that, from the perspective of 
the web, social networking sites seem to be hosted by commercial 
entities.   They provide some virtual cocktails and sofas to coax people 
in, but from the point of view of search engines like Google, they are 
opaque and unsearchable.   The social networks they build are their 
intellectual property.  

In contrast, if they were robot indexable using, say, semantic web 
technologies there will be little need for advertising as almost any 
peer group would be a click away to anyone have a few milligrams of 
curiosity. 

Marcus