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by frakkingcylons 2095 days ago
Tried searching for Bach, first result besides a bunch of companies (?) is a Canadian product designer. Johann Sebastian Bach isn’t even in the first page of search results somehow.
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I am confused as how it can call itself a "knowledge database" when it doesn't even have basic knowledge.

Searched for Falcon, apparently it's a company in the AI industry, has a website falcon.com.cn and is a genus of birds.

Also searched "Apple", got the company, good knowledge base. The fruit Apple is a page that says it's a fruit tree, with the CEO Tim Cook, former CEO Tim Cook, and Timothy Cook.

It seems to just be completely wrong, minus maybe a 100 articles.

I feel like basic encyclopedia information should have at least been pre-populated.

Right Tim Cook is the former CEO. According to an authoritative source the current CEO is Tim Apple.
Mozart not much better, but more recent artist seem to score better, though the pages don't contain any content and the meta-information is also not great.

A search for Merkel delivers an arms company before Angela Merkel, GDP delivers some companies.

Relationships between persons don't seem to be present.

A search for Mercedes Benz doesnt deliver anything too great. Snowden requires an Edward to find him, NSA is a company, Chrome has no info.

Maybe I'm looking for the wrong terms, but it seems like they basically just imported companies from public domain and some random stuff on the side, which mostly is just the title of something.