Friday, July 23, 2010

Metaweb acquisition, Google Skip Facebook





JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - In matters of social networking service, Google probably left and far less than Facebook. However, Google step over the open database company, Metaweb, making the company the internet giant step further than Facebook in the future competition networking service.
Metaweb is an open database service providers who collect information from various parties and categorize according to the context. With the support of Metaweb, Google hopes to provide better search results, and useful.
Jack Menzel from Google describing the company's official blog about how the future service search engine can provide a more contextual answers. If it was just simply looking for the birth of Obama in the top search results or ongoing music events in a particular town, it may already be done.
However, answering questions such as university tuition fees anywhere below 30 000 U.S. dollars or actors under 40 years of age who received an Oscar at least once is not easy. With Metaweb, Google hope to provide an appropriate and comprehensive answers to such questions.
These services are similar to dreams and ambitions of the founders of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, the concept of Open Graph. There, relevant information connected to each other so that Internet users can obtain comprehensive information on interesting things that they need. Zuckerberg aspires, the concept could unify the user preferences, such as in the case binsis, such as Yelp and made music that made her into a package of services that provide very rich information and contextual fit user needs.
"We can make the network become more intelligent, more social and more personal," said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in F8 a few months ago. He is convinced, the mapping is easier to do in Facebook because it already has data of about 500 million users preferences.
In the competition to become a perfect network, Google and Facebook seem to be competing in managing metadata preferences of each user. Metadata can be built Facebook rivals. Google should not underestimate Facebook. Who will win?

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