Google Acquires Metaweb 63
eldavojohn writes "A startup called Metaweb (looks like an ontological, entity-based approach to Web 2.0 tagging) has been acquired by Google. You can find out what they're about from a super marketing fluff video they put together. The neat thing about Metaweb is that the database of entities it has is free. Will Google be able to make Metaweb work on their omniscient scale, or was this just Google making sure a startup doesn't become yet another player in search?"
Silly Logic (Score:5, Insightful)
Will Google be able to make Metaweb work on their omniscient scale, or was this just Google making sure a startup doesn't become yet another player in search?"
If Metaweb doesn't work at Google's Scale, then it couldn't compete with them.
Re:Silly Logic (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:"Ontological" is a synonym for failure. (Score:5, Insightful)
stuff that requires hard AI or tons of human labor and thus won't be happening any time soon.
Wikipedia.
Re:Didn't see it coming. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Something Alta Vista had Google does not... (Score:3, Insightful)
It's not quite the same. The Alta Vista approach grouped the tags - it would have grouped "tasting" with "red" and "white", while grouping "OLE" and "DirectX" in a separate grouping. Moreover, it was smart enough to use that grouping to allow you to select the whole group.
Thus, Alta Vista was better able to detect that sometime "wine" means a beverage, and sometimes software, and that the two concepts are different.
Google still has trouble understanding that the fermented liquid and the software aren't the same thing - it just throws a bunch of other search terms at you.