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My E-commerce site:

Hi, welcome to my commerce site I sell widgets do you want to buy some?
Click here to be brought to my check out.


My Smart Tag enabled E-commerce site:

Hi welcome to my commerce site I sell widgets do you want to buy some?
Click here to be brought to my check out



In other news today....
More Dot com failure as E-commerce sales drop to an all time low.
Analysts are puzzled by this unanticipated drop. What can possibly be the problem?

Northern Light strikes me as doing the best job of returning relevant results, going so far as to thoroughly categorize the results by topic. Also has a greater portion of the web indexed than any other engine. The downside is that there is a bit of lag time in adding new domains to the bot's indexing runs...

Google is pretty good at giving relevant results, but it misses a lot of sites. AltaVista is rather thorough, but not very good at relevancy ranking.

These observations are simply based upon my own experiences with these engines, so your mileage may vary. When performing intensive searches, I generally use all three, but I'll often start with Ask Jeeves, which is easily the best meta-search engine out there...

ROSSLYN, Va., July 28, 1999
ABCNews.com December 17, 2000
siliconvalley.com Wednesday, July 12, 2000

Question: Does the 4C have even the slightest concern for the consumer in all of this?
Jeeves Answer: Where can I find the lyrics to songs by All/Descendants?

Question: Why is Microsoft against CPRM, if it prevents wholesale "piracy" of its software in developing nations?
Jeeves Answer: Where can I find the Web site for the company Microsoft?

Let's see if Andre even comes close to the revelations and understanding that Jeeves provides.

Usually TV is 512 pixels across and anywhere from 300-600 lines up and down.

HDTV depends on the spec.

480i - 640x480 pixels interlaced
480p - 640x480 pixels progressive
720p - 1280x720 pixels progressive
1080i - 1920x1080 pixels interlaced

I stole those from
this site.

google
http://www.google.com/searc h?q =phoebe%20cates%20nude

altavista
http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?q=phoebe%20 cates%20nude&kl=XX&pg=q&a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;Translate=on

yahoo
http://search.yahoo.c om/ bin/search?p=phoebe%20cates%20nude

raging
http://r agi ngsearch.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?q=phoebe%20ca tes%20nude

lycos
http://www. lycos.c om/srch/?loc=searchbox&query=phoebe+cates+nude

hotbot
h ttp://hotbot.lycos.com/?MT=phoebe+cates+nude&SM=MC &DV=0&LG=any&DC=10&D E=2&AM1=MC

go
http://www.go .com/Split? pat=go&col=WW&qt=phoebe+cates+nude

excite
http://search.excite .co m/search.gw?search=phoebe+cates+nude

askjeeves
h ttp://w ww.ask.com/main/askjeeves.asp?ask=phoebe+cates+nud e&metasearch=yes

alltheweb
http://www.alltheweb.com/cgi-bin/search?exec=FAST+ Search&type=all&query= phoebe+cate s+nude

goto
http://ww w.goto. com/d/search/?type=home&Keywords=phoebe+cates+nude

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. . . "have we reached an 'accuracy limit' as far as keyword-based searching is concerned?" and he didn't really have a conclusive answer, but was able to suggest a places where I could buy foundation and how to apply it.

Do I need an ISBN?
If you want to make any sales to bookstores, you need to have an ISBN. If you want people to be able to find your book in the Books in Print directory, you need an ISBN. If you are publishing a book, odds are that not having one will do nothing but hurt your sales.

* What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

* Is Jeeves gay?

(Hm, unfortunately it looks like the second one is slightly broken now.)

It doesn't take that much intelligence, artificial or not, to get a "first post".

Now, a duplicate story detector for Slashdot.. that would be interesting. Make a 'bot' that reads all of the articles ever posted on Slashdot, and acts as an extra level of screening (after "meat" approval by Taco et. al). If the article looks familiar, it could warn about it.

Another idea: an artificial moderator that would read all posts, and based on the way other things have been moderated in the past, tries to figure out how these new posts will be moderated. You probably don't want this doing actual moderations, but it would be interesting to see how well it's able to predict the behaviour of the Slashdot moderators. It could also potentially be used to check for moderation abuses... things that differ significantly from the prediction are likely to be abuses (assuming the prediction was very accurate).

One more idea, but one that isn't /.-centric, would be something like Ask Jeeves that actually works.

All of these ideas are pretty heavy on the NLP aspect.

Alice: What can I call you?
Jeeves: You Can Call Me Willy
A: OK I will call you Willy.
J: Willy Porter
A: "OK I will call you Willy"? willy porter?
J: Where can I find a step-by-step guide to preparing a will?
A: I would suggest a search. Would you like to know more?
J: We'd like to know more about you!
A: By "we" do you mean you and me?
J: The Golden Mean
A: Is that a fact.
J: What is FACT?
A: It is a good question. Have you tried www.whatis.com? I can ask someone about it.
J: Who am I?
A: You are Willy, seeker.
J: The Seeker, Reuniting America!
A: I have never heard about it.
J: Have you heard the one about. . .?
A: No. Tell me more.
J: I Love to Tell the Story
A: You love to tell the story. What do you like about it so much?
J: Every life has a story to tell
A: That is a generalization.
J: What is generalization?
A: The act or process of gerneralizing.
J: Caught - In - The - Act
A: I hope it is not contagious. Also I hope you get well soon.
J: Smile! It's Contagious!

Need something translated into some language, so those poor brown guys can read it?

Brown guys? You mean Jawas?

Of course you're not going to give the job to someone who speaks both English and Brownish well

I want to learn Brownish. Can you point me in the right direction? Jeeves was no help, and neither was Google. Babel Fish doesn't support it.

This pisses me off, since people then assume they're looking at content owned/developed/posted/etc. by ask.com. They, of course, don't pay me for this, nor have they asked permission. What makes it worse is that they have their banner add on top, and I certainly do not want unrelated banner ads "on" my site.

Wasn't this (wrapping someone else's content in your frameset so it was unclear where the content came from) ruled illegal (I seem to remember a case involving the New York Times having its content web-napped by another site.)

Anyway, the conceit on the part of Ask.com -- to think that they can just slap their name on someone else's carefully crafted site design -- is incredible. Almost as outrageous as my own. And don't they owe me at least a portion of the revenue they've generated by adding banners to my site?

Am I alone in this, or does it piss others off too?

It says quite a bit about the typical internet user. Or at least the ones reduced to asking an AI for advice.

You can certainly tell when the kids are at the computer, and their parents are out of the room.

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For more fun, try asking it the flight velocity of an unladen swallow. Or how Jeeve's day is.

What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
How are you today?

For more fun, try asking it the flight velocity of an unladen swallow. Or how Jeeve's day is.

What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
How are you today?

Here's my favorite. What is the airspeed velocitry of an unladen swallow?

Dusty Hodges

Do you ever get tired of answering questions?

Why does turkey make people sleepy?

Hmm...

I have found answers to the following question
As k! What does the computing term "Turing Test" mean?

Is Jeeves gay?

Haven't seen that error before.

Is Jeeves gay?

Haven't seen that error before.

Where can I find cell phone recommendations?

Yes, yes, there are problems, and I am busy working on them :)

I typed "Where can I find a homeless shelter in San Francisco?" into Ask Jeeves, and got a link to Raphael House. Elapsed time: about 10 seconds. Besides, even if it is time-consuming and frustrating, what does a homeless person have other than time?
There are a boodle of search engines out there.
Yahoo returns links to the Jobs Consortium, an organization geared specifically towards finding jobs for the homeless. Elapsed time: 15 seconds.
This information is very readily available on the net, and being on-line helps people find organizations that don't advertise widely and therefore might not be widely known by the homeless population-at-large. This gives Wired Homeless a definite advantage over Unplugged Homeless.

Don't assume information is hard to find on the net. That will often prove incorrect.

gomi

If you define space as "the limited volume that contains all the 'stuff,'" then yes, I agree that space would be limited.

> Italics means BabelFish blew it so thoroughly I couldn't make sense of it.

Well huh. I looked said stuff up in a German dictionary (just Ask Jeeves where you can find a German dictionary) and here's what I got:

• Digitalausgang = Digital, so it's SPDIF Digital. I guess that means that if you have SPDIF outputs, this technology defeats them. Problem might be that the CD player uses SPDIF internally. My sound card (SB Live!) has SPDIF in and out. Thing is though: SPDIF streams can be flagged "copyrighted". I guess this is to make absolutely sure that you can't somehow defeat that flag.
• "c't": c't is Heise.de's "Magazine of Computer Technology" (a rough translation of the magazine's subtitle by someone who doesn't know German, but it sounds right). It's not a German word!
• The part of the sentence in question with "concomitantly" is:
  
  • und - and
  • damit - with it
  • auch - likewise
  • the
• Digitalsignal - guess...

What a difference a human makes!

Kenneth

Disclaimer: This is an educated choice from the possible translations of a German dictionary (Foreign Language Master). I know no German besides that which sounds a lot like English (according to one of my friends who is taking German, this is about 50%).

The other two are Open Directory and Ask Jeeves, which, while a little corny (and annoying at times), tends to bring up the occassional good lead.

1) The URL as user interface. The URL is the attribution of the source.

2) Regarding framing without permission. I guess you haven't seen www.ask.com It's a search engine that keep you in a (removable) frame.