Google Labs’ experimental Public Data Explorer allows users to view and create charts based on public data such as mortality and fertility rates. While Google already incorporates such data from the World Bank and other sources into its search results, this new application draws on even more publicly available information. Bing, one of Google’s main search competitors, uses the Wolfram Alpha computational engine to provide similar statistical results.
– Google announced the launch March 8 of Google Public Data
Explorer, an experimental application offered through Google Labs. The tool
allows everyone from students to policy wonks to create a wide variety of
charts from public data, such as fertility or unemployment rates.

For example, a user …