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Re:Whatever Happened to the Semantic Web? by heinrichhartman on Thursday September 20, 2018 @03:30PM (#18034889)
Seems pretty clear to me that freebase was a thread to Google search. A semantic knowledge search with a powerful query language could replace a good chunk of free text google searches at least for power users.

Makes sense for them to buy it and get rid of it that way.

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Re:Whatever Happened to the Semantic Web? by Latteland on Thursday September 20, 2018 @10:29PM (#18036794)
You can still download the data at https://developers.google.com/freebase/. Looks like the data is available there and the license is "Creative Commons Attribution (aka CC-BY)". Wonder why someone hasn't created a new company starting with their dataset? It's "only" 2gb compressed, 8gb uncomp, 63 million entries. That is smaller than I expected.
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Re:Whatever Happened to the Semantic Web? by Latteland on Thursday September 20, 2018 @10:39PM (#18036828)
I guess wikidata/wikipedia is the offshoot.
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Re:Whatever Happened to the Semantic Web? by dboreham on Thursday September 20, 2018 @05:02PM (#18035440)
>Makes sense for them to buy it and get rid of it that way.

Except they didn't : The Freebase team moved to Google and carried on the work there, as "Google Search".

btw s/thread/threat/

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