Google Q&A
Google has introduced a new Q&A service that puts facts related to searches in OneBox instertions. In an example noted in the Macworld article, a search for Portugal population returns the answer mined from the CIA’s World Factbook. More details on the service and how it fits into the world of search can be found on the Search Engine Watch blog.
April 8th, 2005 at 2:57 pm
simple answers to simple questions
Looking for simple facts on the web can be a frustrating business. Over time, we bookmark sites that reliably deliver the goods - things like basic geographical data, conversion scales for measurements, biographical summaries, or anything else that we …