RE: Metaweb joins Google

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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