Startup Unleashes Its Clone of Google's Knowledge Graph

Re:Startup Unleashes Its Clone of Google's Knowledge Graph by miket on Thursday June 18, 2015 @11:37PM (#9742893)

Founder here. I wouldn't describe what we are doing as cloning Google's Knowledge Graph. Rather, we're trying to build a machine that autonomously learns from reading the web, and makes that structured data accessible and queryable to any app, smart device, or business that uses data. You can also tell Diffbot what part of the web to crawl.

Our APIs power consumer services including Instapaper and DuckDuckGo to enterprise applications like content management and market intelligence.

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Re:Startup Unleashes Its Clone of Google's Knowledge Graph by nl on Thursday June 18, 2015 @11:55PM (#9742930)

The article mentions that you power the Bing infoboxes (or whatever the equivalent Bing term is).

How does that relate to Bing's use of Probase (their concept-graph)?

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Re:Startup Unleashes Its Clone of Google's Knowledge Graph by miket on Friday June 19, 2015 @12:04AM (#9742956)

Unfortunately, I can't speak about this customer integration without permission. You can try to ask questions about Diffbot, though!

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Re:Startup Unleashes Its Clone of Google's Knowledge Graph by emerongi on Friday June 19, 2015 @06:45AM (#9743942)

You said that Diffbot reads the web autonomously. Is it able to learn a language on its own? I'd be very interested in this (business-wise) if it could provide results in my mother tongue.

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Re:Startup Unleashes Its Clone of Google's Knowledge Graph by miket on Friday June 19, 2015 @01:00PM (#9746129)

Working on it. The reliance on visual features means it works decently well on extracting from international pages. Try putting in foreign-language product pages or article pages into our homepage testdrive or with a developer token to see an example.

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