Ask.com Expands AnswerFarm Q&A Database, by Matt McGee., Search Engine Land (june 17)
Ask.com has grown its “AnswerFarm” database from 100 million question-and-answer pairs to 300 million.
Quality is better too:
“Our semantic search technology advancements in clustering, rephrasing, and answer relevance enable us to determine when we have multiple questions that all semantically mean the same thing, so we can aggregate those Q&A pairs, filter out insignificant and less meaningful answer formats, and thus find the most relevant answers.”
See Ask.com Blog - Harvesting the Best Answers from Ask.com’s AnswerFarms! for examples.
Posted by Gwen at June 18, 2009 05:11 PM