knowitall – a new search widget
from the university of washington, i direct your attention to knowitall.
To address the problem of accumulating large collections of facts, we are developing KnowItAll — a domain-independent system that extracts massive amounts of information from the web in an automated, open-ended manner.
web-scraper fact-aggregator widget, with funding from google and darpa.
of course, what they don’t address in the papers and website is the huge amount of misinformation, disinformation and outright garbage that is harbored on the web… a problem for another day, perhaps.