[open-development] Google + World Bank Data?

[Aaron Gladders]

Hi Jonathan - there is a google blog article that suggests they're
using the existing RESTful API:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/world-bank-public-data-now-in-search.html

specifically from:

http://developer.worldbank.org/

Aaron

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Several people pointed this out to me today:
>
>  http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_makes_world_bank_data_more_discoverable.php
>
> Do people know if this is using data that the WB have made open (as in
> opendefinition.org), or if there have been separate negotiations with
> Google?
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Andrew Lamb <andrew.lamb at ewb-uk.org>
> Date: Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:58 PM
> Subject: Google - public data
> To: Fran Talavera <fran.talavera at ewb-uk.org>, Katie Cresswell-Maynard
> <katie.cresswell-maynard at ewb-uk.org>, Jonathan Gray
> <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
>
>
> About time this came out!!
>
> http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=it_net_user_p2&idim=country:KOR:USA#met=it_net_user_p2&idim=country:USA:SWE:GBR:KEN:ESP
>
> Might be of use.
>
> Many thanks,
> Andrew
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
>
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