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That’s all in Google Knowledge Graph. They dropped it because it makes finding information too easy. And hence, competitor search engines could get info out of it super cheaply.

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This reason is so much more disappointing than what I had previously assumed.

Seems unlikely to be the real reason

Seems convincing. Likely the same reasoning behind removing Real-Time results.

Boo! I’d love to have nice hooks into Knowledge Graph.

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