Metaweb
Former American data management company / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the company Metaweb Technologies. For the defunct Quicksilver Wiki, previously known as The Metaweb, see Neal Stephenson.
Metaweb Technologies, Inc. was a San Francisco–based 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.[3]
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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Data management |
Founded | July 2005; 18 years ago (2005-07) |
Founder | Veda Hlubinka-Cook, Danny Hillis, John Giannandrea |
Fate | acquired by Google in July 2010[1] |
Headquarters | , United States |
Key people | Kurt Bollacker (Chief scientist) Danny Hillis (Chairman) Thomas Layton (CEO)[2] Veda Hlubinka-Cook EVP, product development John Giannandrea (CTO) |
Products | Freebase — an online database |
Website | www.metaweb.com |
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Metaweb was acquired by Google in 2010.[1] Google shut down Freebase in 2016, transferring some of the data that met the required notability criteria to Wikidata.[4][5][6]