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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WTF? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-12 11:15 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Anyone else getting this message?

Slashdot requires you to wait 2 minutes between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment. It's been 15 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment

What gives?
1. Re:WTF? by Cutie+Pi · 2005-06-12 11:17 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Yeah that happens to me too.
  
  TACO WHAT IS GOING ON??
  
  Anyone?