Adding properties like Freebase and Frommer's to their collection handled some of that, but not enough. Not long after Google+ was launched, I came to the conclusion that Google didn't build it as just another entry into the social arena.
Like Google, Bing Snapshots are primarily pulling data from Wikipedia and Freebase. It's interesting because Freebase is owned by Google now, but the core service remains free and open - so much so that Bing is allowed to use it despite tension...
The Knowledge Graph culled data from a variety of outside sources such as Wikipedia, Weather Underground, and Freebase.com to summarize key facts and images in a box in the right frame of the SERP. With the speed that things change in the SEO...
If you haven't noticed them already, Google really want you to notice their freebase results which makes the search engine a bit more like Wolfram Alpha and Siri. There is more Halloween fun to be had on Google aside from the Haunted House doodle.
Later during the keynote, Cutts encouraged the audience to do a search for Freebase to understand it. Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts was the headline attraction this morning as SES San Francisco 2012 Day 2 kicked off.
Knowledge Graph made sense of the 2010 acquisition of open content aggregator Metaweb and their Freebase, a database of more than 12 million entities. Freebase isn’t Knowledge Graph, though; it’s just one cog in the massive machine that powers...
From here the user can choose from a list of online encyclopedias like Britannica, Freebase, Qwiki, and Wikipedia. Bing has announced an alliance with Encyclopedia Britannica that will see the search engine present snippets of encyclopedic...
ChaCha Director Jeff Jockisch points out in a Google+ conversation on Knowledge Graph that a large part of the data used to populate these new info summaries comes from Freebase, acquired by Google in 2010 when they purchased Metaweb.
Nearly two years ago Google bought Freebase, a community-built knowledge base featuring 12 million relational entities. Wait, it was kind of already here, so now is it “totally” here? It’s often hard to dissect how far we are into personalization...
Metaweb maintains Freebase, a "free and open database of over 12 million things, including movies, books, TV shows, celebrities, locations, companies and more," Menzel wrote. Freebase says the same, and yet there's a slight discrepancy there with...
Zemanta, AdaptiveBlue, DERI (NUI Galway), Faviki, Freebase and Zigtag have collaborated to develop a semantic tagging format in the hopes of unifying the tagging process. If you've ever used tagging to bookmark or organize content, you know that...
Freebase Answers Live Search wanted to include more of Live Search Answers, so they made use of Freebase, an open, shared database and something Powerset incorporates . Today's Top Story: JustilienGaspard
Freebase Answers Live Search wanted to include more of Live Search Answers, so they made use of Freebase, an open, shared database and something Powerset incorporates in its search. Microsoft acquired semantic search company Powerset earlier this...
These NLP semantic search providers "extract entities from text, disambiguate them against large-scale background knowledge sources (PowerSet uses Freebase, Hakia has its own ontology), and then record the relationships as found in the text.
Freebase: the Next Google-Killer or Over-Hyped Start-Up? Copyright (c) 2007 Incisive Interactive Marketing LLC In This Issue =================== Upcoming Search Engine Strategies Events + Top Stories Since Our Last SE Report
Freebase: the Next Google-Killer or Over-Hyped Start-Up? Copyright (c) 2007 Incisive Interactive Marketing LLC In This Issue =================== Upcoming Search Engine Strategies Events + Editors' Notes + Top Stories Since Our Last SE Update
Freebase: the Next Google-Killer or Over-Hyped Start-Up? This time it's Metaweb Technologies' plans to create a semantic Web database, to be called Freebase, which founder Danny Hillis envisions as "a centralized repository that is more like a...
Freebase: the Next Google-Killer or Over-Hyped Start-Up? This time it's Metaweb Technologies' plans to create a semantic Web database, to be called Freebase, which founder Danny Hillis envisions as "a centralized repository that is more like a...
In today's story, "Start-Up Aims for Database to Automate Web Searching," the NYT covers Metaweb Technologies' plans to create a semantic Web database, to be called Freebase, which founder Danny Hillis envisions as "a centralized repository that...
