Following on its OpenSocial APIs for building cross-social network applications, Google has created a Social Graph API that searches the Web for explicit public statements of connections between ...

Last week, Google’s Freebase, which is to close sometime in the future, announced on Google+ the new Google Knowledge Graph Search API. The Google Knowledge Graph Search API will let you query the ...

Google's newly released chart API generates charts and graphs on the fly called by a URL with the right parameters set. The Google Blogoscoped weblog runs down what data to hand the API to get back a ...

Today Google released the "Google Chart API" which makes it dead simple for people who need charts on their website to create them. By crafting a URL that describes the type of chart you want, Google ...

Did you know there’s a way to tag links on pages to indicate social connections? I’d heard about this vaguely, but you can bet there’s going to be much more public awareness and potential use, thanks ...

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabCylbapuM&rel=1] Tens of millions of people have been busy the last few years building Facebook’s most valuable asset ...

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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 ...

Like the core algorithm, Google’s Knowledge Graph periodically updates. But little has been known about how, when, and what it means — until now. I believe these updates consist of three things: ...