One interesting observation, which I don't intend in any way to diminish the significance of this achievement, which I think will be seen as one of the most imp

One interesting observation, which I don't intend in any way to diminish the significance of this achievement, which I think will be seen as one of the most important milestones in the development of computer science, is that today there is so much information on the web that even Google with it's non-NLP algorithms can "almost" answer Jeopardy questions. There is an archive of past Jeopardy questions here : http://www.j-archive.com/ http://www.j-archive.com/ Try choosing a question and typing the category + the clue verbatim into Google. I've tried this a few times and in most cases the correct answer was in the top couple of sites (usually in the summary text on the Google search page). Of course there's still the problem of actually extracting the answer from the page and presenting it in the proper form.