The combination of two powerful technologies – the Semantic Web and Web Mining – will probably bring the internet and even the intranet closer to human reasoning than they ever thought possible. The internet is simply viewed as one huge, distributed database just waiting to be made sense of. Preliminary work in transforming this huge corpus of text, images, sound and video is already available. There is still a long way to go until efficient algorithms for automatic conversion of traditional data into ontology will be found.