Bing Knowledge Panels Cite Sources & Can Pull From Facebook & YouTube

Aug 2, 2018 - 7:24 am 0 by
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Brodie Clark posted on Twitter that he found it interesting that Bing would show Facebook as a source of information for their knowledge graph. Microsoft and Facebook do have a partnership, of course. But still. Here is the example he used, where the knowledge panel for [portion perfection] used Facebook data.

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The neat thing is that they actually cite and link to where the knowledge information is coming from. Same with a search in Bing for [google] - it says this comes from Wikipedia, Crunchbase and Freebase and the text is under CC-BY-SA license.

Bing Knowledge Panel Sources

You can suggest an edit, which I assume gets reviewed by someone at Bing?

It is just refreshing to see.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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