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Fri Google announced that it has acquired Internet information database company Metaweb, to improve its core business of Internet search. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Metaweb developed a semantic data storage network infrastructure, and the “open sharing of global knowledge database” Freebase. Freebase is a huge, collaborative editing of cross-linked database, allows anyone to contribute, organize, search, copy and use the data. Sounds like with Wikipedia, but in fact are not organized according to the article, but contains more than 11 million objects, such as movies, books, TV shows, celebrities, locations, companies database.

Google bought Metaweb is to enable the search more intelligent, quick to answer the complexity of the user input search term. Freebase will continue as a free and open data exist, but Google will continue to develop and feeds to the database.

Although the monopoly of the United States, Google Internet search market, but also face competition from Microsoft will be. Survey, will be in the United States more than 10% market share. Currently Google is constantly acquired earlier this month announced the acquisition of 700 million U.S. dollars for many travel search and booking of the most popular technology website ITA software company.