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So as a script kiddie / tween I used keyword-related wikipedia content to get my domain parking network to pass Google's "must have content" requirement (that i

So as a script kiddie / tween I used keyword-related wikipedia content to get my domain parking network to pass Google's "must have content" requirement (that is until Google changed their TOS at midnight one day specifically to ban users like myself). What is an example of an actually legitimate use of something like this, and in particular, a use-case that wouldn't be properly served by simply downloading the current data archive on a ~daily or ~hourly basis as people tend to, or just by straight-up crawling as I did back in the day?

treesknees 5y ago
As someone else mentioned in a commment, Wikipedia averages about 2 edits per second and almost 600 new articles daily. A legitimate use of something like this is having Google search results lookup Wikipedia pages more often and in a timely manner. As the article states, it also provides SLAs for the APIs/service. So let's for example say Big Movie Star X dies, but the free API for downloading content is down for the day for maintenance, well now Google's flagship search product is serving stale/outdated information. This product provides businesses a means of reliably depending on an updating source of data.