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Re:Spoofing Google Search Results by saagarjha on Saturday February 16, 2019 @05:27AM (#19178045)
> unfortunately Knowledge Graph doesn’t tell you where it got the information from

This is really the biggest problem I have with the cards. They don't tell you anything at all about their source, and lead people to believe that Google itself has verified and checked the source of the information, making it very easy to treat them as "facts". A somewhat (possibly overly?) cynical viewpoint is that Google likes to keep it this way, since it makes it seem as if they're the arbiter of that information.

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Re:Spoofing Google Search Results by jacquesm on Saturday February 16, 2019 @06:31AM (#19178182)
Not only that, the legal status of this info is murky at best and a clear case of copyright violation at worst.
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Re:Spoofing Google Search Results by krn on Saturday February 16, 2019 @07:47AM (#19178358)
I thought the Knowledge Graph was based on Freebase[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebase

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Re:Spoofing Google Search Results by blattimwind on Saturday February 16, 2019 @08:13AM (#19178419)
The text usually is from Wikipedia and the tabulated data seems to come from Wikidata.
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Re:Spoofing Google Search Results by kibwen on Saturday February 16, 2019 @08:23AM (#19178446)
Wikipedia's text content is licensed under CC-BY-SA, which means that if Google isn't giving attribution somewhere then they would be in violation of the license.
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Re:Spoofing Google Search Results by dannyw on Saturday February 16, 2019 @08:32AM (#19178472)
Google gives attribution when text content is used.

For simple bibliographical information like who someone’s spouses is, it is not copyrightable, and no attribution is needed.

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Re:Spoofing Google Search Results by btown on Saturday February 16, 2019 @10:14AM (#19178883)
Facts may not be copyrightable, but by academic standards they should still be sourced. Google doesn't derive shareholder value from training people to seek primary sources, though.
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