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Find (some) answers with QueryCAT
When it works well, you get a pretty decent response to your question listed right on the front page, no click-through necessary. That's because the site has found a direct match to your question and displayed the answer. For example, if you ask "What is Thunderbird?" You will find that "Thunderbird is a free, open-source email client based on the Mozilla code base."
But there are limitations to this system. For example, "How to dual boot Ubuntu and Windows" comes up with one irrelevant result, while the same search on Google brings up several helpful tutorials.
QueryCAT's Kevin Carey says the site currently has about 2-million questions and answers indexed, but the goal is to double or even triple that number within the next few weeks, which should result in better search results.
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Kevin Carey said 4:26PM on 4-18-2007
Thanks for your coverage of QueryCAT. As our index grows, I expect search results to get even better. For example, if you had searched for "dual boot linux", you would have gotten some great results - we just haven't crawled an Ubuntu FAQ with the answer yet. With time, I think we'll become a valuable resource for a lot of people.
Kevin Carey
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