Ask.com and Ask Jeeves launch database of 300 million answers and questions, Pandia (June 21)
Pandia gives a succinct description of the Q&A search at Ask.
"... they [Ask] crawl and index questions and answers from different sources across the web. Ask then makes use of a so-called semantic search technology (a technology that analyzes the meaning of sentences) to cluster, rephrase and determine the relevance of answers. The result is, according to Ask, “a Q&A database that is fine-tuned to give consumers the best answer, the first time, every time through streamlined, localized, concise results to their questions.”
This database now has 300,000 pairs. Answers my be mixed in with regular search results as well.
Posted by Gwen at June 22, 2009 12:51 PM