Organization
US technology company that, according to the W3C community group, directly runs the schema.org project.
How it connects
Who is behind it
- Wikidata funded by Google. One of three donors (with the Allen Institute for AI and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation) that funded Wikidata's creation.
- schema.org governed by Google. Since 2026 Google runs it directly. The W3C community group is only a discussion forum.
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Details
Description
On this map Google appears only for its role in schema.org: according to the W3C community group, the project is run directly by Google as of 2026, and Google owns its domain.
Attributes
| url | https://about.google/ |
|---|---|
| identifiers | ror: 00njsd438, wikidata: Q95 |
| status | active |
| governance | Commercial |
| prominence | detail |
| note | Subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.; the parent is not recorded as a node here. |
| type | Organization |
| orgKind | company |
| country | US |
| Tags | region: North America |
Sources
- https://www.w3.org/community/schemaorg/how-we-work(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-11-12): Says that "as of 2026 Schema.org is being run directly by Google" and that Google owns its domain name; gives no date for the handover.
Last reviewed: 2026-11-12
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