Re: Metaweb joins Google

On 20 July 2010 11:40, 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 ...
>

The big 4 are getting ready for the upcoming semantic singularity

google with metaweb
ms with powerset
facebook with ogp
yahoo with search monkey

it's more than dipping your toe in the water ... no one will want to be left
behind in this game

i personally think google have bought well and bought QUALITY

followers of socionomics say that explosive turns normally happen
(ironically) at time after there's been a long standing degree of pessimism
in the market

do the indicators point to the possibility that the sem web is approaching a
point of inflection?


>
> 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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