Google Buys Metaweb
In a bid to improve its searching abilities, Google has acquired Metaweb, a semantic data startup known for developing Freebase, an open and shared information database.
Freebase pulls in all sorts of data from the Web and from user contributions. The collaborative knowledge base contains more than 12 million items, according to Google.
Over the past several years Google has been trying to be more than just a tool for finding Web sites.
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