It is obviously going to take something more that TrustRank – and Backlinks algos to beat Google – this hi tech is one that could begin a new disruption ..... like Link Popularity did in the late 1990s
http://www.freebase.com/
This concept is quite difficult to summarize and do justice – but here are several good reviews that will REALLY massage your brain's intellectual resources
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/freebase_will_p_1.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/09/technology/09data.html
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/03/09/this-is-cool-unless-it-achieves-consciousness-and-kills-us-all/ |
This is what I assumed Google Base was going to be about when it launched, but it didn't turn out that way. |
Could become interesting, though it seems to be in deep alpha mode right now. I wonder who's faster though: the Google AI which analyzes natural language or semi-structured data already found online (e.g. what they do for their Q&A feature), or efforts like these which expect users to do the heavy lifting. One thing's for certain: people already create a lot of metadata as it is, only that they don't write it in easily parseable structures. But when I blog "the weather in Germany is fine today" or "Tim Berners-Lee invented the web" then I'm also adding metadata. Companies like Google know how well trying to parse this kind of data scales because it's working on *all* information out there, not just what people maintained at a single site. |
Google Base lets you do that and more. |