Facebook, Google to Battle Over Smarter Web?, John P Mello Jr, PC World (Jul 16)
Google acquired MetaWeb - "a company that maintains an open database of things in the world. Working together we want to improve search and make the web richer and more meaningful for everyone."
Meanwhile Facebook has Open Graph - "Open Graph is also trying to tie together the far corners of the Web into packages that can be more meaningful to its users."
Good video about Metaweb that explains "entities". [3.26 min]
Also - Google Buys Metaweb To Bolster Answers, Google Squared & Rich Snippets, Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Land (Jul 16)
Of interest - Google claims to "understand facts about real people and real events out in the world" - meaning it can recognize that kind of query. For example - events toronto august 1 2010
Posted by Gwen at July 18, 2010 10:18 PM