Search. Monopoly.
Google acquires Metaweb (Freebase)
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#12Imagine if we could do this with all of Google's data (A very cool search engine built on top of Freebase):
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#13wow I was interested in joining Freebase, now I need to join google!
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#14err interesting note Freebase powers some part of Bing Search
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#15So we are going to see a lot of zero click info on Google. Like DuckDuckGo. Good.
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#16Maybe a smart pre-emptive strike against twitters annotations?
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#17Are there anyone here that downloaded and played with their data set (PG dump). I have fiddled with one of their table to process their Wikipedia data. I think Google bought it for their supposedly wicked-fast GraphDB.
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#18Are there anyone here that downloaded and played with their data set (PG dump). I have fiddled with one of their table to process their Wikipedia data. I think Google bought it for their supposedly wicked-fast GraphDB.
the place where I'm now (http://cascaad.com) does use the freebase dumps as a primary source for out entity database (though more are in the works). It is pretty usable even if some interesting data is not available. The dev list and irc channel is also a very useful source.
We hope to be able to provide rdf/rdfa links at some point, because, hey, the semantic web is a darn cool thing :)
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#19That is so cool (I think). I have been waste deep in Freebase for a few weeks for a work task.
There is a lot of cruft in Freebase, but with some manual effort and some automation, it is a good source of a wide variety of information. Depending on application, DBpedia and GeoNames are other good resources for structured data.
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#20Are there anyone here that downloaded and played with their data set (PG dump). I have fiddled with one of their table to process their Wikipedia data. I think Google bought it for their supposedly wicked-fast GraphDB.
I haven't downloaded the data set for the fact that it doesn't look like the accompanying MQL server is available for download. Am I correct on this?
MQL is sweet (e.g. give me all of Tom Cruise's movies since 1995 that have cost over 10million dollars to make), but what good is the data dump if all I can do is resort to simplistic SQL queries? MQL support is just as important as the data itself.
I'm sure that I'm overlooking something simple as usual (shameless self-deprecation reference in an attempt to hold myself less accountable in the event that there's an easy solution available but I was just too lazy to find it).