True Knowledge is constantly improving as it gains knowledge and learns more about the world. Here are some samples of types of question it can now answer.
Geography The fundamental geographical question is "Where is..?" and True Knowledge has learned that you expect different types of answer depending on the type. Where is area code 201? should give the state and major cities, Where is the Nile? should describe its course, and Where is Sheffield? should give its location relative to other cities. We can even tell you Where is Elvis?
Population Our users often ask for the population of a place at a specified time so we're estimating those from known datapoints, eg Population of San Francisco in 1989
Speed We've added calculations for runners, eg How fast is 7.7km in 38 minutes? and for drivers How long to travel 54km at 30 mph?
English Dictionary questions are popular so we've added
definitions like Define robot,
synonym answers like What
is another word for terrified?, and made use of our internal
spellchecker for spelling lookups eg How do
you spell recomend?
Weather Summer is coming on here but what is the weather like in Santa Clara County? And our days have been getting longer as we approach midsummer, so how about Scandinavia - is it dark in Norway at 10:30 pm?
Nutrition Want to look good for your holidays? You can try questions like these to plan your diet Is pineapple juice fattening?, How much fructose is in honey? and How many calories are there in 30g of mayonnaise?
I find it a little weird that it takes 11 steps to figure out that 30 g = 30 g (the mayonnaise question).
Posted by: twitter.com/notexactly | 27 May 2010 at 01:32 AM