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Google Beats Bing at “Jeopardy!”
It may not be a serenely voiced automaton in the vein of HAL, but an old-fashioned Google search will net you the right answer to a Jeopardy!question nearly 70% of the time.
Search engine guru Stephen Wolfram conducted a test where he fed 200,000 Jeopardy! questions verbatim into various search engines:Google, Bing, Ask.com, Wikipedia, and Russia's Yandex.com. ...
According to the New York Post, Google narrowly edged out Ask.com to become the winner in the first category. Google had the correct answer in the first page results 69% of the time, Ask.com 68% of the time, and Bing 63%. Wikipedia fared dismally with a mere 23%.
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