Re: Metaweb joins Google

I disagree with your overall tone here: sure there's a bunch of propriety
tech in use; but there are certainly links back to the linked data world.

"No commitment" I would disagree with. Not sure how to proceed serving the
best of both worlds? That might be more accurate.

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Hondros, Constantine <
Constantine.Hondros@wolterskluwer.com> wrote:

> It's big news for the wider Semantic Web community, as it shows that Google
> is determined to extract better semantics from pages it crawls ... but it's
> mediocre news for the LOD community. Freebase is based on proprietary
> database technology, it relies on its own graph data format, is queryable by
> its own query language (MQL, based on JSON), and makes no commitment to RDf,
> OWL and SPARQL beyond supporting a SPARQL end-point (in beta).
>
> The best case is that Google is just buying the entity extraction expertise
> and software deployed by Freebase ... the worst case is that they end up
> leapfrogging the Semantic Web standards in favour of their own ...
>
> C.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-lod-request@w3.org [mailto:public-lod-request@w3.org] On
> Behalf Of Nathan
> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 9:57 PM
> To: Semantic Web; Linked Data community
> Subject: Metaweb joins Google
>
> Suprised this one isn't already posted!
>
> Metaweb (inc Freebase) has joined google:
>
>
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/deeper-understanding-with-metaweb.html
> http://blog.freebase.com/2010/07/16/metaweb-joins-google/
>
> Big (huge) news & congrats to all involved,
>
> Best,
>
> Nathan
>
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