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Feb122010

Cheaper search engine AI

Ask and WolframAlpha have attempted to differentiate themselves from Google and Yahoo by being able to answer questions. In doing this, they heavily invest in artificial intelligence, curated data, domain-specific semantic relations. Being able to take a query, and automatically match it to an answer, is a pretty difficult job.

Notice Google?

Ever noticed how well Google answers your question when it is posed on a website in a Q&A format? With an explicit question and answer indexed on a page, Google is exceptionally good at giving you an answer.

A cheaper route to search engine AI

Website owners already have the power to instantly turn Google into a AI-like answer machine. All they have to do is to include the questions that the page answers. This process could be automated, or semi-automated, with the results being placed inside a standard tag. Were this adopted as a web standard, Google would instantly become an even more awesome question-answering search engine.

 

Questions this post answers

What is Ask’s differentiation from normal search engines? What is WolframAlpha’s differentiation from normal search engines? What have Ask invested in? What have WolframAlpha invested in? How to make Google an awesome question answering search engine? How can website owners improve Google’s performance? How can website owners improve their SEO? How to get cheap artificial intelligence? How to get cheap search engine AI?

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