Google on Friday said it acquired Metaweb, a corporation that maintains a database of information that it presents to website operators desire to cumulative substance regarding particular topics on their sites. The corporation did not disclose the acquire price.

As is classic with Google acquirement, Metaweb said it plans to support present customers but won't take new ones whereas it incorporates with Google.

It will be exciting to see whether Google competitor Microsoft continues to utilize Metaweb. As per the Metaweb, Bing uses Metaweb offering Immediate Answers in its search consequences and in visual search. The Immediate Answers feature displays solutions to questions at apex of the Bing search consequences page, prior to results listing.

Microsoft did not instantly respond to a demand for verification regarding its relationship with Metaweb or its purposes following acquisition.

Google said it considers Metaweb can help it present a better solution to more compound questions that people facade to search engines. Google can present solutions to realistic queries for example "Barack Obama's birthday" since it understands details regarding actual people and occasions, Jack Menzel, director of product management at Google, wrote in a blog post about its acquisition.