BrainBoost makes a pitch about natural language search helping improve results. I was unimpressed, especially when I went away from the canned answers that "proved" its superiority. Answers.com bought the company last year, and it remains running.
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First, the acquisition of Brainboost and this morning, word that Answers.com has teamed up with the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Public Library and the Queens Public Library to offer HomeworkNYC.org that "will assist" students with their...
Word from Answers.com that they've acquired an "answer extraction" database that utilizes NLP (natural language processing), Brainboost.com for $4 million in cash and 439,000 shares of restricted stock.
BrainBoost (Sept. BrainBoost Designed to let you enter search terms in natural language. Information for Sale: My Experience With Google Answers (Oct. It's when someone is looking for the answer to something, rather than a specific web site...
Services like BrainBoost offers answers mined from the open web. Google is mining open web content including material from the Wikipedia for answers versus using material from reference tool like MSN Search does with Encarta.
Here, the results from the regular search engines looked much more promising than BrainBoost. BrainBoost http://www.brainboost.com BrainBoost is designed to let you enter search terms in natural language.
