Metaweb

{{Short description|Former American data management company}}

{{About|the company Metaweb Technologies|the defunct Quicksilver Wiki, previously known as The Metaweb|Neal Stephenson}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Metaweb Technologies, Inc.

| logo = Metaweb Logo.jpg

| logo_size = 150px

| type = Private

| foundation = {{start date and age|2005|7}}

| fate = acquired by Google
in July 2010

| founder = Veda Hlubinka-Cook,
Danny Hillis,
John Giannandrea

| location_city = San Francisco, California

| location_country = United States

| location =

| key_people = Kurt Bollacker
({{small|Chief scientist}})
Danny Hillis ({{small|Chairman}})
Thomas Layton ({{small|CEO}})[https://www.metaweb.com/press/062707.html Metaweb announces hiring of Thomas Layton, CEO] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080220112215/https://www.metaweb.com/press/062707.html |date=2008-02-20 }}
Veda Hlubinka-Cook
{{small|EVP, product development}}
John Giannandrea ({{small|CTO}})

| industry = Data management

| products = Freebase — an online database

| num_employees =

| homepage = {{url|https://www.metaweb.com|www.metaweb.com}}

}}

Metaweb Technologies, Inc. was a San Francisco{{En dash}}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.{{cite news

| title = Start-Up Aims for Database to Automate Web Searching

| work = The New York Times

| date = 2007-03-09

| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/09/technology/09data.html?ex=1331096400&en=a87d4f61e6052888&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

| accessdate = 2008-03-26

| first = John

| last = Markoff

| archive-date = 2018-04-17

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180417105227/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/09/technology/09data.html?ex=1331096400&en=a87d4f61e6052888&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

| url-status = live

}}

Metaweb was acquired by Google in 2010.{{cite press release|publisher=Metaweb|date=2010-07-16|url=https://blog.freebase.com/2010/07/16/metaweb-joins-google/|title=Metaweb joins Google|accessdate=2010-07-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120530075733/https://blog.freebase.com/2010/07/16/metaweb-joins-google/|archive-date=2012-05-30|url-status=dead}} Google shut down Freebase in 2016, transferring some of the data that met the required notability criteria to Wikidata.{{Cite web|url = https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/44818.pdf|title = From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration|date = 11 April 2016|accessdate = 25 August 2020|archive-date = 26 October 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201026174100/https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/44818.pdf|url-status = live}}{{Cite web|url = https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/freebase-discuss/s_BPoL92edc/Y585r7_2E1YJ|title = Announcement: From Freebase to Wikidata|date = December 16, 2014|accessdate = December 16, 2014|website = Freebase Discuss|publisher = Google Groups|last = Douglas|first = Jason|archive-date = January 22, 2011|archive-url = https://arquivo.pt/wayback/20110122130054/https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/freebase-discuss/s_BPoL92edc/Y585r7_2E1YJ|url-status = live}}{{cite web |url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/freebase-discuss/WEnyO8f7xOQ |title=So long and thanks for all the data! |date=2 May 2016 |accessdate=5 May 2016 |archive-date=22 January 2011 |archive-url=https://arquivo.pt/wayback/20110122130054/https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/freebase-discuss/WEnyO8f7xOQ |url-status=live }}