Metaweb
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Metaweb Technologies, Inc. was a San Franciscobased company that developed Freebase, described as an "open, shared database of the world's knowledge". The company was co-founded by Danny Hillis, Veda Hlubinka-Cook and John Giannandrea in 2005.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- business
- Part of
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- John Giannandrea
- Headquarters
- San Francisco
- Owned by
- Industry
- data management
- Official website
- www.metaweb.com
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- inception
- 2005-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2010-07-16
- product or material produced
- Freebase
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Metaweb Technologies, Inc. was a San Franciscobased company that developed Freebase, described as an "open, shared database of the world's knowledge". The company was co-founded by Danny Hillis, Veda Hlubinka-Cook and John Giannandrea in 2005.
Metaweb was acquired by Google in 2010. Google shut down Freebase in 2016, transferring some of the data that met the required notability criteria to Wikidata.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Metaweb” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.