Google Buys Metaweb, the One Company That Could Revolutionize Google Search
July 19, 2010
Google has acquired Metaweb, which maintains a database (“Freebase”) of 12 million “entities” (persons, places, or things), and all the different ways they relate and you might refer to them.
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According to The Official Google Blog, Metaweb will allow Google to “improve search and make the web richer and more meaningful for everyone.” Metaweb was founded by legendary computer scientist Danny Hillis.
Metaweb’s video (below) does a good job of explaining the concept.
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by nfordkai
Linking things together in a database “the different ways they relate and you might refer to them” not only does not “seem impossible”, but it seems like a very obvious approach. I have been working on NLP for many years in a way which uses the same approach. (http://www.aeyec.com)