We didn’t lose control of the Web – it was stolen

Re:We didn’t lose control of the Web – it was stolen by literallycancer on Monday March 13, 2017 @08:10AM (#13857044)

I actually like what they started doing lately, where the answer to my query is extracted from the page, and shown at the top of the results, especially when it's something simple that I just want to double check.

When's sunset today?, what was the name of that movie with surgeon turned spell caster?, how long does it take to go from A to B? Another way to say XYZ?

Too many sites are full of crap, so this saves me a non-trivial amount of time.

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Re:We didn’t lose control of the Web – it was stolen by scholia on Monday March 13, 2017 @09:50AM (#13857777)

When Google Gets It Wrong: Direct Answers With Debatable, Incorrect & Weird Content http://searchengineland.com/when-google-gets-it-wrong-direct...

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Re:We didn’t lose control of the Web – it was stolen by bigbugbag on Thursday March 16, 2017 @10:30AM (#13885266)

There was an article on HN front page recently showing how this feature is at best unreliable. I don't have the link but the story was from a teacher asked about a US president being a member of the ku klux klan.

Way better, and I believe where google got its inspiration, is duckduckgo instant answers: https://docs.duckduckhack.com/welcome/how-ias-work.html

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Re:We didn’t lose control of the Web – it was stolen by mattmanser on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:53AM (#13858870)

You're alright with stealing someone else's work and passing it off as your own, while making money doing it?

OK.

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