Google Pulls Answers, Events Out of Search Morass, Research Buzz (Jan 25)
Google says it is better at answering factual questions. One method is by highlighting the answer. It does a good job on its sample question - How tall is the Empire State building? - but it takes a lot of tries to get it to work on other questions. Tara Calishain says that Wolfram Alpha is better at this type of question.
It will also highlight events in a "rich snippet" if the web developer has made use of the new format. Details are given in a Google blog post.
Posted by Gwen at January 25, 2010 04:19 PM