I watch the goings on with respect to SPARQL, and the efforts of the W3 group to get at a graph traversal language. Unfortunately, they adopted XML as the standard machine data fomat before solvng the real problem. The real problem is not how to define a query language for people, but to define a query language for the machine. 90% of the real searches on the web involve machines searching each other, mainly to organized the data and set up queries for better retrieval. Database machines to not talk XML very well, browsers do.
So the w3 community got themselves involved in browser standards (great work!),but browsers have nothing to do with graph traversal on the web. And web intelligence is stuck because the machines cannot really query each other without a lotta hoopla from Google or patents by Apple. The machines need a nested store that is natural for them.
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