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The Oracle of Google

September 15th, 2002 by Will

The Oracle of Google does a very good job answering multiple choice questions.

For instance I asked it who wrote Great Expectations. I tried to trip it up by including David Copperfield as one of the choices on the assumption that there would be nearly as many “Great Expectations” AND “David Copperfield” page matches as there are matches for “Great Expectations” AND “Charles Dickens”. But, it got it right.

3 Responses to “The Oracle of Google”

  1. on 15 Sep 2002 at 4:46 pm1 Will

    I’m a goon. Turns out there are 4 times as many Dickens Great Expectations matches as there are Copperfield Great Expectations matches. I may need to spend some time thinking of questions to stump this thing. Way more fun than the which TV character or famous dictator am I?

  2. on 15 Sep 2002 at 4:50 pm2 Will

    Damn! How did it know it was Bart? I would have sworn that would come back Homer.

  3. on 23 Sep 2002 at 12:42 am3 Jonathan Telfer

    Hi there, doing The Oracle has given me a new hobby, searching for sites that are linking to it :D.

    Thanks for the positive comments guys, oh and I’m afraid you’re on the wrong track as to how it works!

    Have fun,
    Jonathan.

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