Googles New Search Tool to Use CIA and World Bank as Sources for FactsEric Blair According to an article on Blog Tips about Googles Knowledge Graph, immediate answers or facts from pre-selected sources like the CIA Factbook, Wikipedia, and the World Bank will be provided in search results along side the organic results: Instead of using the typical search strength of a particular answer, this new feature will draw facts from places like Wikipedia for historical information, CIA World Factbook for geopolitical answers, the World Bank for economic facts, Freebase for information about people and other predetermined sources. Sure, most would argue that Wikipedia does a pretty good job through its open-source format to nail down basic facts. However, the CIA and the World Bank are organizations with agendas sometimes counter to the truth, and making them the authority on facts gives them tremendous power to shape public knowledge. Google-owned Freebasewill also be usedin the Google Knowledge Graph. Freebase is a massive database, which according to Singularity Hub already has data on over 24 million people, places, and things. Google then combines its Freebase with Metaweb algorithms to connect everything and everyone. For the purposes of improving searches, this may be wonderful, but its the exact type of software that can easily build and organize a profile on all Internet users. Watch how theyre already connecting your data points below: So besides relying on the CIA and the World Bank to force feed Internet users facts, they will also construct and display how each person appears in these new searches. Please share this and comment below with how you think this will affect the organic search for information. See more articles by Eric Blair here. 