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I tried it, and the results aren't up to par with whatever I'm searching. They'll be forced to relinquish data like all the other companies when they get big enough.


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Yes. It's been tried but people kept giving it useless data.

Just looked at it and their data is terrible, at least for some locations.

It’s way too expensive. Plus I wouldn’t want to deal with the limitations and latency that its consistency model brings unless I had truly Google-scale data, which I don’t.

Sounds interesting, but I don't trust this service to keep my data safe. The polished, scroll-hijacked website and the call for VC funding doesn't help.

The Flash viewer and ridiculous TOS doesn't give me much confidence in their data.

This is disappointing. With all the data they now have access to through the ITA purchase, this is still much worse than what I can achieve with ITA Matrix (http://matrix.itasoftware.com/).

Seems par for the course for the company that's always mixed data and metadata.

I mean, it's not even true now. They just sold all the data. To Google.

From what I have experienced it fails even more on retrieving data from pages. This is certainly the beginning to the race to the bottom.

not scalable, look at their "stupid" and "non-stupid" data

Why would they even bother with this when they already have much better data though.

I absolutely agree. I tried to get the my data into other formats by creating a RSS feed for the non-critical information. But the RSS feed you get is a joke. I still like their service very much.

Any source for this? It's completely new to me and seems like the worst idea possible. They get so much valuable data from people using it..

I also do not trust their data as much.

A company that employs dozes of data scientists and has petabytes of data is now supposedly unable to compare and match two datasets? Come on, this is beyond ridiculous.

I willing to take a punt and guess that the models they’re using are using short term/isolated data, not 10 years worth of your entire browsing history.

I'm not sure if you are joking, but that's exactly what they should not be doing. They also can't just go poke around their customer's data. That would be very unwise...

They're not going to be able to fix the accuracy and "not making stuff up" problem for years.

Right now, this seems like a way to curb cloud spend. It costs more money per query than search.


What about the data that is already out there ?? Is there any way to get that removed from their servers ?
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