Can IBM build a more intelligent search engine than Google? Probably not, but IBM’s Watson computer appears much more capable than Google's search engine. Though the data analyzed and processed are primarily for a game of trivia, the impressive performance thus far by Watson cannot be underestimated.
If Google's search engine is the best we (engineers) can do for searching digital data for answerers to common and repeated questions, then we are way behind the curve, and Watson could prove insightful into where Google (or a more creative, intelligent startup) should be heading with data analysis and search.
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If Google's search engine is the best we (engineers) can do for searching digital data for answerers to common and repeated questions, then we are way behind the curve, and Watson could prove insightful into where Google (or a more creative, intelligent startup) should be heading with data analysis and search.