Search Engine Or Answer Engine: What Will You Prefer?

We all have heard about search engines and used them as well. We tend to search the smallest of the things on these search engines as we are so accustomed to them. But have you ever heard about an “Answer engine”? Well, here comes “trueknowledge.com” which according to the scientist uses a cutting edge technology to answer questions directly.

[​IMG]This new concept, as per its creators is a site which is an internet ‘answer engine’. As quoted by the co- founder William Tunstall-Pedoe, based in Cambridge, True Knowledge is “phone a friend” on the internet and is capable of answering trillions of questions. The novelty of the website is that it answers whatever questions you ask it. It doesn’t give you references or links to other sites as done by the search engines. Ask it a general knowledge question like, “Who was the first Prime Minister of India?" Or a simple one like, "what is a cat?” It will answer it diligently. Ask it when is Sachin Tendulkar’s birthday and it will give you the date without having you worry about the unending links. And if it doesn’t know the answer to any particular question, it will simply say it doesn’t know it and will ask you to answer it, if you at all have the answer.

Tunstall-Pedoe said, "It doesn't know everything but as we input more information it will know more and more. It's cutting-edge use of computers. It uses unique semantic technology which has been many years in development. It understands user questions, represents knowledge in a way that the system can understand and process and can combine existing knowledge to infer new facts and answer questions it has never seen before. Powering the platform is also a database of facts - a unified representation of the world's knowledge containing factual, common sense and lexical knowledge. We can already answer trillions of questions and as this knowledge base grows, we understand and answer more and more." (Reference Daily mail)

Friends, True Knowledge is really amazing. The only problem I found with the site is limited knowledge. Also you have to ask a complete question to get an answer. It will be difficult to get an answer if you know just part of the question. So, if next time you need to get a direct answer to any of your questions, just try this answer engine. As for other complicated things, we still have search engines.

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