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Seems pretty clear to me that freebase was a thread to Google search. A semantic knowledge search with a powerful query language could replace a good chunk of f
by heinrichhartman 8y ago
Seems pretty clear to me that freebase was a thread to Google search. A semantic knowledge search with a powerful query language could replace a good chunk of free text google searches at least for power users.
Makes sense for them to buy it and get rid of it that way.
- dboreham 8y ago>Makes sense for them to buy it and get rid of it that way. Except they didn't : The Freebase team moved to Google and carried on the work there, as "Google Search". btw s/thread/threat/
- Latteland 8y agoYou can still download the data at https://developers.google.com/freebase/ https://developers.google.com/freebase/. Looks like the data is available there and the license is "Creative Commons Attribution (aka CC-BY)". Wonder why someone hasn't created a new company starting with their dataset? It's "only" 2gb compressed, 8gb uncomp, 63 million entries. That is smaller than I expected.
- Latteland 8y agoI guess wikidata/wikipedia is the offshoot.