IBM also bought Blekko, a general purpose web search emgine like Google and Bing. They use it to harvest data to build something like Freebase internally, now t

IBM also bought Blekko, a general purpose web search emgine like Google and Bing. They use it to harvest data to build something like Freebase internally, now that Googe closed down Freebase (to ise it as well internally only). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blekko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blekko So it would definitely help smaller AI companies if an open minded consortium would launch a new FreeBase alike service and open web crawler with free data dump access. (WikiData is at the moment (and for the next months) several magnitudes smaller, and Freebase frozen stale data gets more useless every day)