Heres the official Google blog post that explains everything a bit more <a href="http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/google-fusion-tables.html" rel="nofollow">http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/google-fusion-tab...</a>
Wonder if this came out of their acquisition of Gapminder's Trendalyzer software. The one also featured in the Ted videos with Hans Rosling [1]. They seem to at least have integrated it under "Visualize > Motion", but it isn't working for me right now.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling.html</a>
Google has a difficult task ahead of them as Avi Bryant & co have been working on DabbleDB, which seems quite similar to this, for a couple years now. www.dabbledb.com
wow.. this is really cool..
so unlike wolfram alpha, which is painstakingly gathering data from different sources themselves, google might be using this to let users give them the data (assuming they choose to make it public)