Playing around with GuruNet's "answers.com" service earlier today
reminded me of past positive experiences with similarinternet
bootstraps (Yahoo!, Altavista, Google et al).
I have always believed that self-annotation will ultimately
drive the realization of the semantic web
vision. GuruNet is an interesting effort that should lead down this
path.
Here is GuruNet's answer to
the question: What Is
SQL?
The Web
Services, XML, and RDF angles should
be pretty obvious (I hope!).
BTW - GuruNet does have a sync latency issue re. Wikipedia that
it will need to address sooner rather than later.