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Google Delivering Factual Answers
nam37 wrote in about a Macworld article which reads: "Google
Inc. on Thursday began delivering factual answers for some queries at the
top of its results page, to save users from having to navigate over to other
sites and look for the information. For example, if a user enters the query
'Portugal population,' Google returns the answer -- 10.5 million -- along with a
link to the Web page where the information came from, which in this case is the
population page of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's Factbook. The
query 'who is Jane Fonda?' triggers the answer '... is an Academy Award winning
American actress, model, writer, producer, activist and philanthropist' and
provides the link to the Wikipedia online encyclopedia's entry for the actress.
A small percentage of queries currently trigger these factual answers, but the
service, called Google Q&A, is in its early stages, said Peter Norvig,
Google's director of search quality."
What's a henway? Oh, about 3-4 pounds. Nyark, nyark, nyark.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Shh! The first time someone asked Google that, the damn thing went into recursive mode and blew out three server clusters before the sysadmin team could shut it down!
The AI Peter Norvig? He works for Google? Ok, I'm impressed.
I need to get a job there. Where is the math problem that gets me a job?
Synergies are basically awesome, and they're even better when you leverage them. -PA
Query: What is Slashdot? Google: "... is a site full of geeks with no life" ;)
Actually, it tells you what a slashdotting is.
what is the answer to life, the universe, and everything? although it comes from the Calculator, not from Q and A.
My query:
"Which search engine is the best?"
Google's response:
"AskJeeves."
So, how long do we think it will be exactly until the Google Pidgeon Clusters become self aware and begin to correlate all this data only to come up with 42, and a recipe for a nice cup of tea?
Edward@Tomato - /home/Edward/ man woman
man: no entry for woman in the manual.
"Qua!?"
It doesn't answer one of the most important questions of our modern times:
"What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?"
The Slashdot effect is a particular example of how a popular website can cause a smaller site to slow down or even temporarily close after causing a great increase in the number of visitors going to the smaller site. The huge influx of web traffic is a result of it being mentioned on Slashdot, a popular technology news and information site. Typically, less robust sites are unable to cope with the huge increase in traffic and become unavailable either their bandwidth is consumed or their servers are unable to cope with the high strain.
What is the Matrix? doesn't seem to give the right result.
I've been curious about Britney's actual breast size for a long time now. Maybe Google will help us end this debate once and for all.
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
Type in "pi" and you get "pi = 3.14159265"
5 10582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706 79821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081 28481117450284102701938521105559644622948954930381 96442881097566593344612847564823378678316527120190 91456485669234603486104543266482133936072602491412 73724587006606315588174881520920962829254091715364 36
EVERYBODY knows it's 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937
I hate it when they fudge data like that.
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
answer:
"First Post!" is a phenomenon of Internet discussion groups (notably Slashdot and LiveJournal), where participants strive to be the first person to add a comment ("post") to a new article or discussion thread. The phenomenon is largely confined to sites that have reached a high degree of popularity, such that users are genuinely surprised to see an article without any associated comments. There is also the necessary condition that comments are displayed in chronological order (meaning the first ...
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
"There is now."
(Stolen from one of the best short stories ever)
What was scary was I asked Google "Is there a God?" and it replied, "Yes. now there is a God."
Has there ever been a slashdot thread in which a first post and goatse were on topic and insightful?
weight of pamela anderson
How Much Wood Could a Woodchuck Chuck If a Woodchuck Could Chuck Wood?
"As much wood as a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood"
Genius!
how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood
. shtml
Answer:
Woodchuck
Could Chuck: As much wood as a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
According to http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/Woodchuck
Who's so fat?
(bad joke... sorry)
Interactive Visual Medical Dictionary
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just Google.
k.
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Sounds to me like what you would say if your mouth was full.
(chomp-munch-chomp)
"So... mmf... Bill..."
(chomp-munch-gulp)
"Yuh?"
(crunch... chomp-munch-gulp)
"There god?"
(suck-chomp-munch)
"Ah'uh know."
Information wants to be free.
Entertainment wants to be paid.
You just want to be cheap.
...rather a lot of people pee in said fountain.
United States
Population: 293,027,571 (July 2004 est.)
According to http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fiel
that
United States
Population: 293,027,571
According to http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rank
I wonder why there's different results for every other time i click search..
Sample this!
The Terminator: The Google Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Google begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Free as in mason.
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