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Gears

Summary

Gears is a free software[1]. Gears ranks in the top 9% of free_software entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (22 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Gears is the creator of Google[3].
  • Gears's instance of is recorded as free software[4].
  • Gears's instance of is recorded as Firefox extension[5].
  • Gears's owned by is recorded as Google[6].
  • Gears's logo image is recorded as Gears logo.png[7].
  • Gears's developer is recorded as Google[8].
  • Gears's copyright license is recorded as BSD licenses[9].
  • Gears's programmed in is recorded as Q2407[10].
  • Gears's operating system is recorded as Microsoft Windows[11].
  • Gears's operating system is recorded as macOS[12].
  • Gears's operating system is recorded as Linux[13].
  • Gears's software version identifier is recorded as 0.5.36.0[14].
  • Gears's Commons category is recorded as Gears (software)[15].
  • +2007-05-31T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Gears[16].
  • Gears's end time is recorded as +2011-06-07T00:00:00Z[17].
  • Gears's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02rggwk[18].
  • Gears's official website is recorded as http://gearsblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/stopping-gears.html[19].
  • Gears's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/google-gears[20].
  • Gears's Quora topic ID is recorded as Google-Gears[21].
  • Gears's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted[22].
  • Gears's GitHub topic is recorded as gears[23].

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Authorship and Creation

Gears is the creator of Google[3].

Why It Matters

Gears ranks in the top 9% of free_software entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (22 views/month).[2] Gears has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] Gears is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

Related Entities

C++ free software Google Linux macOS Microsoft Windows

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . code.google.com. code.google.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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