Just because it is becoming more and more advanced does not mean the star search engines of the Internet has ceased to slow down in confusion for even a small chunk of knowledge question. In attempt to resolve the issue, answers dot com from and ask dot com have committed to cater more brilliant replies to pesky but square questions about history, science, geography, pop culture and sports.
An explicitly located correct answer of a results page or highly placed link to a Web page where related answer is found is what both search engines are directed. However, their mission might have a hard time convincing everybody. Just how extensive is the information embedded in these search engines? To find out, a very easy a mock test was performed by yours truly using the very questions I picked from the most recent, Trivial Pursuit. Answers. Com and Ask. Com’s avowed prowess against Internet’s most widely used searched engines were pitted by my game Trivial Pursuit imitating game.
With questions like what glass beads are created when a meteorite strikes the earth’s surface, answers. com and ask. com fared a little higher than Google but markedly ahead of yahoo and MSN. Both answers dot com and ask dot com showed me the way to the correct answer, which is tektites, right at the first link on the results page, a skill exhibited by both sites in 10 out of the 20 questions thrown during the pseudo game.
Although they performed similarly in our game, answers dot com and ask dot com rely on different formulas. The main characters of the latter are Google’s search engine and human editors who have fed its database with answers to the most frequently asked questions which they in turn discovered by keeping their watchful eyes on reference materials. Ask, part of a Web family that has been acquired by an ecommerce conglomerate for $2 billion, has devised a fully automated approach that fishes through the Internet’s sea of information.
Superiority on this particular task could be easily awarded to Answer. Com and Ask. Com, but they seldom meet their furthermost goal which is to make things as clear cut as possible by displaying a concise and correct response at the very top of the results page to avoid having to click on a link first before being able to use another Web site. The question regarding Google’s meaning drew out a concise Web answer from Ask. Com just like the way it did with one more question, an accomplishment only once done by Answers. Com
Questions rating high in Internet’s most asked statistics were supplied with the correct answer right at the first link in 8 instances, including the question on tektites. The search engines found one question astoundingly impossible to be answered. Who was the first Cuban player to become delinquent to major league baseball? Rene, Cardinals’ 1990 pitcher did not appear on any of the searches.
Though MSN was quite behind in a larger portion of the contest, it had a single moment to shine when one of the questions was asked. What company was bought out with the biggest deal from past to present? The first link on MSN’s results page took me to a site that correctly listed a Nabisco subsidiary. The test also stressed out the disadvantage of leaning on search engines where they sometimes link to sites with contradicting answers.
This had been strongly evident in my question regarding the number of viewers of the TV show mash in its series finale, The search engines pointed to Web sites that variously listed the audience at anywhere from 106 million to nearly 125 million. To tweak some words in a movie theme song, it still ain’t pain free to search for answers online.
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