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Google scanned 25 million books. That has to help them at least a little.
by criddell 4y ago
Google scanned 25 million books. That has to help them at least a little.
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- wslh 4y agoBut it is possible to crawl Internet in a distributed way. Also Wikipedia is a treasure.
- criddell 4y agoThat's all true, but everybody has access to that. None of that is scarce so the value is basically 0. You asked for advantages that Google has and the text of 25 million books is one thing. A lot of the text is going to be scarce and so it's something of value Google has and others do not. Google also has built a massive GIS database from driving their cars around the world. Apple has a smaller database and there are some third parties (like ESRI) that will sell you access to their database. If you want to ask an AI something about your neighborhood, Google has more data than anybody on that front.