GooglePeople
People who need GooglePeople are the luckiest people in the world.
Sometimes on the Web itâs hard to separate the signal from the noise. Itâs also hard to separate information about people from information about everything else. Thatâs where GooglePeople (http://www.avaquest.com/demos) comes in. GooglePeople takes a âWho Isâ or âWho Wasâ query (e.g., âWho was the first man on the moon?â or âWho was the fifth president of the United States?â) and offers a list of possible candidates. It works well for some questions, but for others itâs way off base.
Using GooglePeople
GooglePeople is simple: enter a âWho Isâ or âWho Wasâ question in the query box. GooglePeople will think about it for a minute or three and provide you with a list of possible candidates to answer your question, with the most likely candidate on top, the other candidates listed underneath and rated for relevance with a series of asterisks.
Click a candidate name for a Google query integrating your original query and the candidateâs name; this provides a quick test of the validity and usefulness of the GooglePeople query at hand.
Tips for Using GooglePeople
I found that for some questions GooglePeople worked very well.
Who was the first African American woman in space?
was answered perfectly. But some questions had GooglePeople
perplexed.
Books and authors
GooglePeople seems to have a bit of trouble with identifying the
authors of fiction books. For example, asking Who
is ...
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