Google Acquires Metaweb

Google has announced via their official blog that they have acquired Metaweb. Now what is Metaweb?. Metaweb has it's own search philosophy instead of searching the web using keywords. What they do is search the web using entities. So let's say lady Gaga is now very popular on search and everyone wants to find info on the music star. Metaweb will treat Lady Gaga as an entity and so when someone searches for her. They will get her photos, pictures, posters, Bio, Tour Info and a host of other available info about her.


So if you are travelling to a foreign country and you want to lookup the place your going to stay at. You get all this info right at your fingertips. It's like Metaweb understands all you might need and presents everything to you as a single entity.


There you have it, imagine what reach Metaweb has now that it has been acquired by Google. Google will start showing Metaweb type searches soon and therefore will be able to answer a lot of specific questions. Like "How many tigers are left in India under the age of 4". Since it treats each search as a seperate entity. The word Tiger will have everything related to it already stored and so users can ask very very specific questions and hope to get an answer.


Metaweb also has something called Freebase which has more than 12 million things, which you can check out. Check it out now. 


Check out the video below to learn more about Metaweb. 

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