Stephen Wolfram compares Wolfram|Alpha to Watson, the IBM Jeopardy playing program. Wolfram has also searched a list of Jeopardy clues on various search engines. He evaluated and scored those results. http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2011/01/jeopardy-ibm-and-wolframalpha/
How often the solution appears on the search results page: 69% Google 68% Ask 63% Bing 62% Yandex 58% Blekko 23% Wikipedia
How often the solution appears in the first document listed on search results page: 66% Google 65% Bing 58% Yandex 51% Ask 40% Blekko 29% Wikipedia
other coverage: http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2011/01/27/google-would-just-beat-bing-at-jeopardy/ http://search.slashdot.org/story/11/01/30/2142259/Google-Would-Beat-Bing-At-Jeopardy-Says-Wolfram
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Failed Wikipedia has failed. |
TOMHTML: Do you think that might be because Wikipedia is not a search engine?
How can they meaningfully compare a site that searches the whole web, versus a site that only searches its own pages? |
The best search engine for Wikipedia is Google: [keywords site:wikipedia.org]. |
Yeah, but that's a Google result |