Knowledge engine

This actually worked really well for me for factual information, for example, I asked "When was the World Trade Center Built?" and it gave me the correct date. For a lot of…

It answered both "Who was Klaus Nomi?" and "Why do pigs fly?" correctly. That's a lot better than I usually get with these things.

It got the Caribou coffee question of the day, "what battle ended the civil war" "surrender at Appomattox ended the civil war"

>who is president of mexico Politics portal >who killed kennedy Men Who >what is the date of google's IPO June 25, 2014

Wow! Many years ago I tried to do the same. Did not manage to get far. I am seriously impressed by what you have achieved

Awesome and amazing piece of work here. Don't ask why I searched this, but I found one problem out of everything I searched: http://i.imgur.com/cGlclWU.png

Magical!

"What is the dollar to yen conversion rate?" > Sorry, I don't know. "Where is O'Hare?" > Sorry, I don't know. "What time is it in Japan?" > Sorry, I don't know. Needs a little…

The engine can't answer this one: How would I achieve instantaneously that a girl desires to be with me? Answer: Don't know

"If I filled a one square light year cube with plain chobani greek yogurt, how many calories would it contain?" > Sorry, I don't know. Come on man. If you're not going to…

When was the first Macintosh computer released? 1467 B.C. Needs some work...

My favorite test for this sort of thing is asking questions about "President Bush." Any successful engine is going to have to ask for clarification: Do you mean senior or junior?…

I asked how to make a grilled cheese sandwich and it gave me some business from stackoverflow. Is this just supposed to be for techie type questions?

From "How much does an elephant wiegh?" on Answers.com: Less than your mum

There are some problems with answers form SO, example "What is monad?", but nice overall. Some answers could be combined into one like "Where is New Zealand?"

I am working on handling ambiguity, as well as questions that don't have one definite answer (eg. "how should I invest 10k at a 5 year term?"). Possibly through an interface that…

This actually worked really well for me for factual information, for example, I asked "When was the World Trade Center Built?" and it gave me the correct date. For a lot of…

Cool stuff! Perhaps a bit different, but Id love to see this implemented for specific subsets of information. Even better, a DIY version where I could enter my own QAs (or get…

A discussion of the algorithm powering this can be found at: http://www.sphere-engineering.com/blog/quickanswers-io-a-new-algorithm.html However there are actually several types…

That's alright, wolfram alpha tells you the date the raincoat was invented when you plug in that question. (google gets it right)

I just had to try wolfram alpha. It eventually understood "how many calories would one cubic light year of greek yoghurt contain?"

That's alright, wolfram alpha tells you the date the raincoat was invented when you plug in that question. (google gets it right)

It cant't answer "tell me about abundant numbers" or "should I take the red or blue pill". This reminds me of askjeeves(shudder)