Online database company Freebase has taken $42 Million in a round that included Benchmark Capital and Goldman Sachs. Total funding to date is $57 million. We first covered Freebase in March 2007 (see ...

As I discussed in my article on the Semantic Web for our Crackpot Tech feature on February 19th, the standard Web was originally designed for document distribution, and has yet to realize its full ...

Google is shutting down Freebase, its open source repository of facts that, in part, helps power the Google Knowledge Graph. Google announced the news today on Google+, saying: We’ve decided to help ...

Google acquired Metaweb back on July 16, 2010, which powered Freebase. Freebase is one of the sources of data Google uses to power their Knowledge Graph. Many SEOs were able to manipulate the ...

Freebase, which I discussed just the other day, has now opened to anyone, at least for reading and searching. Registering so that you can contribute to the site still requires an invitation. I have 20 ...