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...
Like BrainBoost, caveat emptor with this type of service. Answers.com will apply Brainboost's answer extraction techniques not only to the Web at large, as implemented currently, but to Answers.com's own growing content library of attributable...
Services like BrainBoost offers answers mined from the open web. I've been wondering the GooglePlex would begin offer this type of service. Google is mining open web content including material from the Wikipedia for answers versus using material...
