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Why Google Needed a Graph Serving System
- PaulHoule 8y agoThe Freebase acquisition itself was triggered by Google being late to the graph game. First Microsoft bought Powerset, then they applied technology from Powerset to create Bing. For the first time there was a world-class competitor to Google's search engine so Google panicked and bought Metabase. This was particularly odd at the time because despite having one of the creators of Cyc as it's head of research, Google was publicly derisive of knowledge graphs up until that moment.