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Google Acquires Metaweb

Posted by Soulskill on from the nothing-to-do-with-neal-stephenson dept.

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. The neat thing about Metaweb is that the database of entities it has is free. Will Google be able to make Metaweb work on their omniscient scale, or was this just Google making sure a startup doesn't become yet another player in search?"

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  1. Didn't see it coming. by pushing-robot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everyone was thinking Google would take over the Web, and here they skip right past it and acquire the Metaweb.

    Well played, Google, well played.

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    1. Re:Didn't see it coming. by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 2, Funny

      Once you start freebasing, you just can't stop.

  2. I never metaweb by abbynormal+brain · · Score: 2, Funny

    i didn't' like.

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  3. Rehab by masterwit · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will Google be able to make Metaweb work on their omniscient scale, or was this just Google making sure a startup doesn't become yet another player in search?

    Wrong and wrong, you see Google is freebasing now:
     

    The web isn’t merely words[, or water-soluble,] it’s information about things in the real world, and understanding the relationships between real-world entities...

    Sometimes you have to give it a good ole "smoke-test" to see the possibilities...Google should be careful though, the path they have chosen is a slippery slope!

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  4. Re:Silly Logic by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm not sure how you got from "Machines automatically creating and ranking indexed entities" to "Destroy all humans" but I'm sure it involved an illegal substance.

  5. Re:Silly Logic by Jurily · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm not sure how you got from "Machines automatically creating and ranking indexed entities" to "Destroy all humans" but I'm sure it involved an illegal substance.

    It's the AI that was supposed to index 4chan.