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Yahoo!'s web-wide query language learns to write

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Why do we need *another* language to query the web as database? We have SPARQL for that already: http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/

D'oh.

Ed Blackshaw

Woo-hoo! 

FAIL

Another web 0.2 based language that nobody will use because it will never reach critical market penetration. Somebody's certainly justifying their salary there.

Snert Lee

What's in a name? 

Well sparql does sound pretty, What's yql? yukkle or ickle? It should probably be Y! QL, though that does beg the question: Y?! Y!? Y?!?