No There's lots wrong with this article > Google has only one valuable proprietary dataset They own none of the map/street view data? Google already answers

No There's lots wrong with this article > Google has only one valuable proprietary dataset They own none of the map/street view data? Google already answers questions using books. And if you too want the world's book repository you can just download it, just illegally. There are big megapacks of it. Way better data than Google books, The only thing Google books might beat you on is original documents for history. But books are almost dead, maybe a decade? ML with human assisted help will be able to pop out quality books quite easily. It'll still take a human, just it'll do in a month what took years.