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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Factual aims, credibly, to become [b]Wikipedia 2.0[/b]
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Milton Roe
QUOTE(Newsfeed @ Tue 4th January 2011, 7:15am) *

Factual aims, credibly, to become Wikipedia 2.0
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Imagine an online community that combines user contributions, editing and fact checking like Wikipedia, with automated data extraction like Google and
and more »

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Heheheh. Hey, WMF. They're coming for you. smile.gif
thekohser
If you read the original New York Times article about Factual, I am not very impressed.

I mean, founder Gil Elbaz gives as his example of one of the tough data nuts that Factual will crack by crowdsourcing and then "look for some sort of consensus": What is the right phone number for a business?

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