Indexing the world

As the amount of information we see daily increases, so does the need to index and record it. A new startup, freebase is trying to do just that. Came accross them via a Techcrunch article. Licensing is achieved through Creative Commons Attribution, freeing yourself from “restrictive corporate licenses”. Very interesting concept, in my opinion. It does sound a bit famiar to what google is doing though, as rightly mentioned on Techcrunch, with the difference that freebase is largely user contributed.

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