Post-Googleism At IBM With Piquant

kamesh writes "James Fallows of the New York Times reports an interesting search technology that IBM is developing. IBM demonstrated a system called Piquant, which analyzed the semantic structure of a passage and therefore exposed 'knowledge' that wasn't explicitly there. After scanning a news article about Canadian politics, the system responded correctly to the question, 'Who is Canada's prime minister?' even though those exact words didn't appear in the article. What do you think?"

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Re:Sounds impressive

[FireBreathingDog]

Heh heh heh. I love it. Seeing your sig is like seeing all those people with Kerry bumper-stickers still on their cars. Calling the president Hitler, an idiot, an evil genius, a Nazi chimpanzee, etc., didn't win you the election. Imagine that. Maybe next time you guys will realize you need a little more than childish name-calling to convince voters to go your way.

Then again, seeing how you've all been after the election makes me think you still don't get it. Calling 62,000,000 people idiots because they didn't vote the way you wanted them to isn't going to make them any more likely to vote your way in the future.

...and we're the ones you call idiots. Sheesh.