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Metaweb

July 17, 2010 Google Buys Metaweb And Its Sprawling Database - Genpop.net Posted by Zsolt Fazakas Google on Friday announced that it acquired Metaweb, a company founded in 2005 that has assembled a database of all sorts of things in the world, their. [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 16, 2010 Aardvark And The Synaptic Web Send by pcervieri Interview with Aardvark CEO Damon Horowitz after Google acquisition. A meta-web is forming that connects the bits and bytes of our online social actions in new and startling ways. The social search start-up Aardvark shows us how five years from now the 2010 Web will appear quaint. [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 16, 2010 Metaweb - About Metaweb Technologies Posted by Zsolt Fazakas Metaweb helps site owners, bloggers, and developers make their sites richer and more engaging. Based in San Francisco, Metaweb Technologies was founded in [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 17, 2010 Google Buys Metaweb, Chases More Complicated Search Send by news.yahoo.com Google on Friday said it acquired Metaweb, a company that maintains a database of information that it offers to website operators wishing to aggregate content about specific topics on their sites. [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 17, 2010 Google Buys Metaweb To `improve Search' - SignOnSanDiego.com Posted by Zsolt Fazakas Search giant Google Inc. says it has bought Metaweb Inc., a company that helps connect Internet search words to real-world things. [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 17, 2010 Google Buys Metaweb To `Improve Search' - Cbs5.com Posted by Zsolt Fazakas Search giant Google Inc. says it has bought Metaweb Inc., a company that helps connect Internet search words to real-world things. [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 17, 2010 Google Buys S.F. Startup Metaweb To 'improve Search ... Posted by Zsolt Fazakas Mountain View Internet search giant Google says it has bought Metaweb, a San Francisco startup that helps connect Internet search words to real-world things. Terms were not [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 16, 2010 Esther Dyson: Release 0.9: Metaweb - Emergent Structure Vs ... Send by Esther Dyson Metaweb lets you represent it whole yet still complex: The car is a unified thing, but you can still see the individual parts and how they fit together. You could also specify where they come from and what they cost. [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 17, 2010 Google Gets Semantic: Buys Metaweb | IndustryAnswer.com Send by SmallBusinessNews Google today announced it had acquired Metaweb Technologies , the ambitious startup building a database of all the web's information called Freebase . Metaweb was yet another semantic web startup before its time , but with the help of [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 17, 2010 Google Buys Metaweb To Improve Results For Complex Search Queries Send by www.betanews.com Google moved to better its search results by acquiring Metaweb , a San Francisco based company that maintains a open database of "things," and their relationships to one another. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 17, 2010 Google Buys Metaweb, The One Company That Could Revolutionize ... Send by brandon93s Google acquires companies all the time, little startups with a bit of helpful technology or a nice patent or a few engineers Google wants. Today's acquisition. [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 17, 2010 Google Bags Metaweb For Search Future | Tech News Ninja Send by Team Register The web is more than words Google has acquired Metaweb Technologies, a five-year-old San Francisco startup that maintains a massive open database that details all sorts of real-world stuff in an effort to build a smarter, more connected [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 16, 2010 Google Buys Freebase - This Is Huge Posted by Zsolt Fazakas Today, Google shocked the pundit world by announcing that they have bought Metaweb, the company behind one of the largest structured database Freebase. Over time we?ve improved search by deepening our understanding of queries and web pages. The web isn?t merely words?it?s information about things in [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 17, 2010 This Week In Startups #64 With Susan Choe Send by [email protected] 01:14:20 Metaweb Acquired by Google ? Google announced on its official blog this morning that it has acquired semantic search startup Metaweb, though the terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Metaweb maintains Freebase, an ?open [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 17, 2010 Google Buys Metaweb For Better Search Results | Fox Lake Towing ... Send by Sam Gustin Google has purchased semantic search startup Metaweb in order to improve search and make the web richer and more meaningful for everyone. Terms were not disclosed. Metaweb has built a giant online database that tracks the connections [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 17, 2010 StarGum. A New Techblog. Blog Archive Google Acquires Metaweb Send by Soulskill eldavojohn writes "A startup called Metaweb (looks like an ontological, entity-based approach to Web 2.0 tagging) has been acquired by Google. You can find out what they're about from a super marketing fluff video they put together. [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 17, 2010 Google Buys Metaweb To Bolster Complex Search Abilities Send by www.infoworld.com Google on Friday said it acquired Metaweb, a company that maintains a database of information that it offers to website operators wishing to aggregate content about specific topics on their sites. The companies did not reveal the purchase price. [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 17, 2010 One | A DC Based Company - Google Buys Metaweb To `improve Search ... Send by Mike Ginn AP ? Search giant Google Inc. says it has bought Metaweb Inc., a company that helps connect Internet search words to real-world things. Read more here: Google buys Metaweb to `improve search' (AP). Tags: helps-connect, internet, metaweb [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

July 16, 2010 Google Acquires MetaWeb Because It Can | TG Daily Send by Mark Raby In an official blog post, Google announced that it has acquired Metaweb, a company that it describes as maintaining "an open database of things in the world." The online giant believes that with Metaweb's research, it can help better [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

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