Metaweb Acquired by Google: Entities, Not Keywords

MetaWeb purchased by Google, announced on the Google blog Friday. Good stuff here about how to make the web more understandable and less complex. Using “Entities” or tags, the concept helps to organize data under “people, places and things” rather than tied to keywords, which may have multiple meanings. The video spells this out very clearly.

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