Learning New Things from Google

Posted by anigbrowl on Monday November 30, 2020 @09:52PM
from the twitter.com dept.

https://twitter.com/xkcd/status/1333529967079120896

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Re:Learning New Things from Google by justarandomq on Monday November 30, 2020 @11:12PM (#25262223)

"How far away from a nuclear blast is safe?"

Google: 6 feet

"What is the opposite of a dragon?"

Google: a Tiger

"When was running invented?"

Google: Running was invented in 1612 by Thomas Running

"where is spaghetti code grown?"

Google: Slovenia

Two months ago such a result was posted here "How many web servers are there ?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24664280 Not sure what it gives but "how many web servers" gives 'four'. Did someone at Google fix the result individually?

Also note that Logic the rapper is ranked higher than actual logic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18413380

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Re:Learning New Things from Google by anigbrowl on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @09:58PM (#25272785)

Also note that Logic the rapper is ranked higher than actual logic

I've noticed a lot of things like that lately. Big G is ripe for disruption.

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Re:Learning New Things from Google by rckoepke on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @02:39AM (#25263239)

Google Answer Boxes: since 2016

Google Featured Snippets: since 2015

Google Knowledge Graph: since 2012

Google Quick Answers: since at least 2005[0] through at least 2011 [1]

0: https://www.searchenginewatch.com/2005/10/04/new-features-at...

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTBShTwCnD4

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Re:Learning New Things from Google by vitiral on Monday November 30, 2020 @11:21PM (#25262271)

"what year did alexander the great land on the moon?" 1970

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Re:Learning New Things from Google by jdofaz on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @11:53AM (#25266921)

I'll think of this when people say google is the best search engine.

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