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Yeah, it looks like Google might be trying to head off Powerset at the pass by providing inline answers to these simple trivia-like questions. Powerset's been
by jfarmer 18y ago
Yeah, it looks like Google might be trying to head off Powerset at the pass by providing inline answers to these simple trivia-like questions.
Powerset's been doing this for more than a year and Google is already better at it, at least when I compare the results side-by-side.
- unalone 18y agoI wonder, though, if Google was planning on that already, or if they instead started working on that when PowerSet started releasing such hype?
- aston 18y agoGoogle's been working on the OneBox (instant factual answers to everything you could ask) forever. As has MSN/Live search: http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=president+of+france http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=president+of+france When I was at MSN Search 3 summers ago, they were objectively ahead of Google in that area.
- jfarmer 18y agoInteresting. Didn't know that!
- unalone 18y agoMSN's is nice (I'm not a huge fan of Google's, though I like its being integrated throughout search results), but I think Yahoo!'s is the most broad-minded. They really take advantage of their various hundreds of sites to give you relevant stuff. It's one of the times when having many half-baked sites gives you an edge. EDIT: I didn't realize that Google's search result answers came on a OneBox. I just thought their first search result had been dead-on.