The internet answer engine. I really hate it when I have to say that I don't like a search engine. However, sometimes something just doesn't work too well, or there are better resources available or there's a high WTF? factor to something. That's the case with the True Knowledge engine. It bills itself thus: "TrueKnowledge.com’s
goal is to build a computer understandable repository of the world's
knowledge and their innovative ‘answer engine’ can tell consumers everything
from how many times an individual’s height is relative to Mount Everest and
what happened on any date in history to which convicted criminals studied at
Harvard and what actresses share bust sizes to give you just a few wildly
different examples!" It's answering questions based on 443,756,196 facts on 13,556,061 things. (What does that even mean?)
I tried a few searches/questions. The population of the UK 2011 was provided by an unknown person who gleaned the answer from Wikipedia, but I when I looked at the Wikipedia page I couldn't find it. So that wasn't very helpful, and I wouldn't want to just trust a figure pulled from Wikipedia by someone I didn't know.
I asked about librarians. This told me that Philip Larkin was a librarian. I looked at his page on True Knowledge, and that told me he was a librarian and linked me back to the librarian page. Self referencing answers don't fill me with confidence I'm afraid.
The American Civil War was married to Cornelia Adair, one of the combatants was the United States Coast Guard, and it was a behavioral event. Well, that's alright then - everything I need to know.
Sorry, but this just doesn't cut it. If I want unsubstatiated data I'll get it from Wikipedia directly. If I want to know the answer to a question I'll get it from my network on Quora or Twitter. If I need a fact, I can pull it from any number of different sources. If I'm being harsh, so be it. I'm sure that in time this resource will develop, but until it does, I simply wouldn't want to use it for anything at all.
I tried a few searches/questions. The population of the UK 2011 was provided by an unknown person who gleaned the answer from Wikipedia, but I when I looked at the Wikipedia page I couldn't find it. So that wasn't very helpful, and I wouldn't want to just trust a figure pulled from Wikipedia by someone I didn't know.
I asked about librarians. This told me that Philip Larkin was a librarian. I looked at his page on True Knowledge, and that told me he was a librarian and linked me back to the librarian page. Self referencing answers don't fill me with confidence I'm afraid.
The American Civil War was married to Cornelia Adair, one of the combatants was the United States Coast Guard, and it was a behavioral event. Well, that's alright then - everything I need to know.
Sorry, but this just doesn't cut it. If I want unsubstatiated data I'll get it from Wikipedia directly. If I want to know the answer to a question I'll get it from my network on Quora or Twitter. If I need a fact, I can pull it from any number of different sources. If I'm being harsh, so be it. I'm sure that in time this resource will develop, but until it does, I simply wouldn't want to use it for anything at all.
Interesting concept, but it definitely needs tweaking. I just checked it out, asked a question, and got a very wrong answer. There are much more reliable sources out there, so I'm not sure how successful this will be.
Posted by: Nick Stamoulis | April 01, 2011 at 03:19 PM
there is a new generation of search engines comming soon. Ask.com is the begining of what is comming next. Yahoo is making great advances too. The Google era, will end soon.
Posted by: Bombas de Agua | April 03, 2011 at 03:17 PM
Danke, nun endlich habe ich das wirklich gerafft :)
Posted by: webseite | April 03, 2011 at 08:08 PM