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Google Now Charts Unemployment And Other Public Data In Search Results
- arnorhs 18y agoHmm, strange. This doesn't seem to work @ my google. I just get normal search results... Might not have propagated between servers or maybe this is a localized service only available in the U.S. ?
- aneesh 18y agoSince it's US-specific data, perhaps Google only made this available for US search queries.
- Femur 18y agoI went and played with the feature and I have to say that it is fairly well implemented. Kudos to Google.
- TFrancis 18y agoIs this the first swipe at Wolfram Alpha?
- vaksel 18y agoGoogle and Wolfram don't really compete, I wouldn't be surprised if Google ends up showing Wolfram stuff in their results, like they do with Wiki.
- dandelany 18y agoWhy would anyone downmod this? It's certainly not abusive, and it's a good point to boot: there are some definite similarities between what Wolfram Alpha is promising and the semantic technologies Google has been implementing over the past year or two.
- lacker 18y agoIt's based on the Trendalyzer acquisition from a few years ago. It's not like the technology was just thrown together in response to the Wolfram announcement.
- snewe 18y agoTechcrunch blogspam. Direct link: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/adding-search-power-to-public-data.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/adding-search-power-t...
- dandelany 18y agoInteresting that they released this on the same day as the long-awaited Wolfram|Alpha demo... Google has been slowly piecing together their linked data strategy, which includes things like automatically returning flight data, stock data, answers to natural-language questions, etc. However, until they release an API letting developers tap into some of these tools and return structured data, they're not fully getting it.