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Did StackOverflow agreed to offer the data or Google just took because they can? Stackoverflow has their own query tool. Why would they give their data to Google?

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Blog post: https://stackoverflow.blog/2016/12/You-Can-Now-Play-With-Sta...

It's kinda funny how that the blog link was posted to HN even before this Google one and still the third party Google one made it to the frontpage.

I guess my queries linking the dataset to HN posts contributed to this post success :)

StackOverflow (and all the other SEs) is CC-licensed, and you can download the dump yourself: https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-c...

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