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I wonder, though, if Google was planning on that already, or if they instead started working on that when PowerSet started releasing such hype?
by unalone 19y ago
I wonder, though, if Google was planning on that already, or if they instead started working on that when PowerSet started releasing such hype?
- aston 19y 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 19y agoInteresting. Didn't know that!
- unalone 19y 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.