MusicBrainz, one of the earliest available LinkedOpenData sets recently discovered that Google uses MusicBrainz data in some of its searches. The article explains, “Earlier this week I met with Shawn Simister, who works on Google’s Freebase project (former from MetaWeb) to touch base about how MusicBrainz is being utilized inside of Google. MusicBrainz represents a large chunk of the music data in Freebase and in turn the Freebase data is used as one of the sources of data for Google’s search.” Read more