World Bank public data, now in search

Taking a cue from and fearing the competition of the the recent Wolfram  Alpha – Bing – Yahoo alliance Google has probably paid World Bank an arm and a leg to plug their search engine in the newly released WB data API. In a limited and rather inconsistent way, searches such as internet users united states will produce a chart like the one below

via World Bank public data, now in search.

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