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Google, thanks for shutting down Freebase.com on 2 May 2016. By taking it offline, and using it (Knowledge Graph) for Google Home you effectively locked out all

by frik 10y ago

Google, thanks for shutting down Freebase.com on 2 May 2016. By taking it offline, and using it (Knowledge Graph) for Google Home you effectively locked out all competitors. WikiData is a far cry and a fraction of the size of what was Freebase. Freebase was a large collaborative knowledge base consisting of data composed mainly by its community members. It was an online collection of structured data harvested from many sources, including individual, user-submitted wiki contributions. Freebase aimed to create a global resource that allowed people (and machines) to access common information more effectively. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebase Google is using a lot of data collaborative collected data from closed Freebase and Wikipedia without giving it back.

artpar 10y ago
Freebase data dump is available for download for free. And so is Wikipedia and Dbpedia. And so i common crawl and webdatacommons dumps What are you doing with that ? - https://developers.google.com/freebase/#freebase-rdf-dumps https://developers.google.com/freebase/#freebase-rdf-dumps - http://wiki.dbpedia.org/ http://wiki.dbpedia.org/ - http://webdatacommons.org/ http://webdatacommons.org/ - https://dumps.wikimedia.org/ https://dumps.wikimedia.org/
- frik 10y ago
  How useful is an aging Freebase dump from last year? How useful is it next year? Old outdated data isn't that useful? There is no alternative to Freebase, and oth companies bought companies to have access to an alternative. Microsoft bought Powerset company for Bing, IBM bought Wekko company for Watson, Googe closed down Freebase to use it in-house. And everone else is very "happy" about Google.
  - artpar 10y ago
    Frankly, I have used freebase in one of the project and I then moved to Dbpedia because its content seemed better. I would like to understand how you are using it that Freebase seems the only alternative ?

by frik 10y ago

artpar 10y ago

Freebase data dump is available for download for free. And so is Wikipedia and Dbpedia. And so i common crawl and webdatacommons dumps What are you doing with that ? - https://developers.google.com/freebase/#freebase-rdf-dumps https://developers.google.com/freebase/#freebase-rdf-dumps - http://wiki.dbpedia.org/ http://wiki.dbpedia.org/ - http://webdatacommons.org/ http://webdatacommons.org/ - https://dumps.wikimedia.org/ https://dumps.wikimedia.org/

frik 10y ago
How useful is an aging Freebase dump from last year? How useful is it next year? Old outdated data isn't that useful? There is no alternative to Freebase, and oth companies bought companies to have access to an alternative. Microsoft bought Powerset company for Bing, IBM bought Wekko company for Watson, Googe closed down Freebase to use it in-house. And everone else is very "happy" about Google.
- artpar 10y ago
  Frankly, I have used freebase in one of the project and I then moved to Dbpedia because its content seemed better. I would like to understand how you are using it that Freebase seems the only alternative ?