I wanted to find the lyricist (song writer) of a recent hindi film and I was pleasantly surprised to see Google answer the query itself, saving me a click or two. (Click here to see what I mean). I tried the same for a not-so-recent movie, but alas that didn’t work. Of course, the “blame” is on Google’s partner, for they do not have that movie in their database.
I was aware of the recent launch of this service by Google which enables it to delivers answers to “factual” questions (like this one), so the surprise was really at their partnership with Indiainfo to deliver content related to hindi movies. Good stuff, from a company that has lost focus in recent times IMHO – but that’s for another time.
But clearly this service is in it’s infancy, for it doesn’t know the answer to some pretty basic questions ;)
PS – Did you know you can make Google do all the math for you?
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hey, didn’t know about the calculator thingy. Impressive!!
Hey, it didn’t work when i clicked the link nor did it gave me answer when i wrote the same myself in google search
You’re right – it doesn’t work now. But it did then. I guess the tie-up is in “Beta” right now – like everything Google ;) I should have taken a screen shot…