--- On Fri, 9/19/08, BillK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Matt Mahoney wrote: > > Quick test. > > > > Q: What world leader lost 2 fingers playing with > grenades as a boy? > > powerset.com: doesn't know. > > cognition.com (wiki): doesn't know. > > > > google.com: the second link leads to a scanned page of > a book giving the answer as Boris Yeltsin. > > > > > At present, they are not trying to compete with the Google > search engine. :) > > They only search in Wikipedia, using this as a basis to > test their > Natural Language front-end. > > A better test would be to ask a complex question, where you > know the > answer is in Wikipedia, and see if they answer the question > better > than a Google search of Wikipedia only.
>From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeltsin "Boris Yeltsin studied at Pushkin High School in Berezniki in Perm Krai. He was fond of sports (in particular skiing, gymnastics, volleyball, track and field, boxing and wrestling) despite losing the thumb and index finger of his left hand when he and some friends sneaked into a Red Army supply depot, stole several grenades, and tried to dissect them.[5]" But to be fair, Google didn't find it either. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
