Looking for Answers in the Age of Search

Posted by timothy on Sunday June 12, 2005 @10:53AM from the wrong-answers-are-the-best-kind dept.

prostoalex writes "James Fallows, in a New York Times article, notices that search engines are getting pretty good at providing information for simple keyword-based queries. However, when it comes to the actual information, such as finding the necessary data and statistics, they're not doing a great job. The article talks about the NSA- and CIA-sponsored Aquaint project that aims to deliver answers to questions that might be expressed with a variety of keywords, and need to be 'understood' by the search engine before providing the answer."

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Looking for Answers... by rah1420 · 2005-06-12 11:02 · Score: 5, Interesting

...like the Semantic Web?

No, I don't know why it's being relaunched. My guess is that it's probably one of the answers that we are looking for in the age of search that didn't quite cut it. But isn't that what all these different meta-searches are talking about? The ability to get semantic meaning imbued into the web?

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