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Google adds World Bank numbers for fact seekers
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 12 November 2009, 19:32 IST
San Francisco: In a bid to make hard facts about countries worldwide easier to find, Google is adding World Bank figures to Internet results. A "public data" feature launched about six months ago with continually updated U.S. population and employment figures will, now, also include World Bank numbers, according to Google Search Team Product Manager Ola Rosling.
"There is a lot of noise in results for those that want to get to the raw data and not interpretations of the data," Rosling said. "This is a first baby step toward solving the enormous problem of making numbers easier to find."
Rosling also said that Google has added 17 World Development Indicators including child mortality rates; carbon dioxide emissions per capita; life expectancy; military expenditures, and economic data. People, businesses or governments can link online to Google public data charts or embed them in websites.
Also, according to Google, "A challenge to the growth of the fact-finding search service is that a lot of public data has yet to be made available on the Internet." "Our plan is to add a huge amount of sources. Eventually, we would like to have all of these data sources well organized," said Rosling.
