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by sunnyam 2139 days ago
Have you read the written statement? He says that it's not commodity information like the height of a building or the the current time.

Just like Forbes, they employed a team of fact-checkers to find and generate estimates. Knowing the exact net worth of a celebrity isn't just a fact that someone can determine and so for Google to steal that information, which is the result of research and scrutiny is wrong.