Saturday, November 6, 2010

Answer your question

Search engine is a powerful tool. Unfortunately it does not understand human's natural question well. People need to scan pages of web documents to find an answer.

Today, TagsUp.com released a question and answer (Q&A) system. TagsUp.com uses semantic search and natural language processing technology to answer your question.

TagsUp.com is built in to answer millions of questions.

Here are a few examples, and you can compare our results with Google.com.

Question 1) when is the date harvard university founded?
See answers from TagsUp.com. The answer is at the top of the page.
Answer: Harvard University Date founded: Sep 8, 1636;
When is the date harvard university founded

Here is the same search from Google. Google does not get it.
when is the date harvard university founded by Google

Question 2)Britney Spears's birthday
Both TagsUp.com and Google got the answer. Note you do not have to enter the complete sentence to trigger TagsUp.com's question answer system. Google behaves the same.
Britney Spears's birthday

Question 3) What is kobe bryant player statistics?
TagsUP.com got it. Google does not.
What is kobe bryant player statistics

Qeuestion 4) What is Barack Obama's parent
What is Barack Obama's parent

Please try it out. If this feature is useful, let your friends know.