SnappyFingers is a new startup out of Bangalore and calls itself a search engine for Question and Answers. Their crawler crawls and indexes Question and Answers and FAQ’s from across the Internet and provides a convenient, single point of search from their website.
The site is currently in beta and as per Chirayu, the founder, they have a database of 3 million questions in their search index.
The concept is really nice and has some pretty good potential but in its current form, there are a few shortcomings.
For example, a search for “Miami weather” shows some a few good results:
but also a few useless results:
They still need to tweak their indexing – querying algorithms to make the results more useful. None the less, I definitely like the idea.
Check it out.
Pranav, I just did.
I tried 5 questions in simple English and all of them produced no results whatsoever.
I asked about the Delhi weather, Delhi temperature, “What is AMitabh Bachhan’s father called?” and finally, simply typed “Amitabh Bachchan”.
The results had nothing whatsoever to do with AB. See below:
Search Results:
1 – 3 of 3 results for “Amitabh Bachchan”
WHO IS HONEY KALARIA?
Honey Kalaria, “choreographer to the stars” is considered to be Britain’s top modern Indian dance expert. She is a lethal combination of beauty and brains who is frequently referred to as “The UK’s Bollywood Ambassador”. As one of the UK’s most successful and influential dance trainers, she has coached thousands into outstanding professional performers. Her unique teaching techniques have also helped some of today’s biggest stars.
Source: http://www.honeysdanceacademy.com
What Can I Do To Avoid Spyware In The Future?
Update your operating system and internet browser with the latest “patches”, install a firewall to secure your internet connection from unauthorized users (I recommend Zonealarm), download only from sources you trust, set the security and/or privacy setting level in your browser to at least medium to avoid unauthorized downloading, back-up your files regularly and only open e-mails from sources that you trust.
Source: http://www.freshnews.in
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I remember Askjeeves was a similar service, encouraged you to ask your questions in plain English with the difference that the answers were relevant.
Anyway, I am sure the algorithm will improve. How is this different from Askjeeves, BTW?