On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
Google has announced via their official blog that they have acquired Metaweb . Now what is Metaweb?. Metaweb has it's own search philosophy instead of searching the web using keywords. What they do is search the web using entities. So let's say lady Gaga is now very popular on search and everyone wants to find info on the music star. Metaweb will treat Lady Gaga as an entity and so when someone searches for her. They will get her photos, pictures, posters, Bio, Tour Info and a host of other available info about her. So if you are travelling to a foreign country and you want to lookup the place your going to stay at. You get all this info right at your fingertips. It's like Metaweb understands all you might need and presents everything to you as a single entity. There you have it, imagine what reach Metaweb has now that it has been acquired by Google. Google will start showing Metaweb type searches soon and therefore will be able to answer a lot of specific questions. Like ...