http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=kew+gardens says we died in 1751, and that we were preceded by one hundred and one Dalmatians :)
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James Morley [log in to unmask]
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew www.kew.org
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> Behalf Of Dan Zambonini
> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 8:35 AM
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> Subject: Google Squared - collections search?
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> Google Squared (http://www.google.com/squared) launched
> yesterday, which, as the Techcrunch article
> (http://tinyurl.com/r8qyuk) says, 'structures the
> unstructured data on web pages' and 'looks for data
> structures on the web that imply facts'.
>
> I played with this last night with trivial (but successful)
> searches search us 'uk political parties' or 'welsh
> mountains', but have just realised that it is also implicitly
> a type of cross-collections search:
>
> http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=da+vinci+paintings
>
> http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=mechanical+calculator
>
> http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=world+war+2+tanks
>
> http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=monet
>
> Interesting stuff, and yet more (shudder) copyright implications? :)
>
> Dan
>
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