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Shouldn't IBM start their own search engine if they have algorithms like this?

Or conversely, maybe Google should buy them?

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Or conversely, maybe Google should buy them?

I wish you had checked the market cap of IBM and Google before suggesting that :). IBM > GOOG

You're right. Looks like IBM is doing pretty well.

IBM wants to sell the stuff that's Watson's based on to companies. Companies will get their own 'answer engine'. I guess they think that licenses will make them more money than ad-money for search engines. Which could well be true in this case. Watson's insane knowledge still won't give me the cat pictures I want.

Looks like Google and IBM are evenly matched in terms of market cap so a buy out is unlikely http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=IBM+GOOG+market+cap

QA technology is very different than search because the former makes strong assumptions about quality of the underlying data. Google's search is much better at filtering out and dealing with low quality content (e.g. blogs) and spam.

Hah now Wolfram Alpha, I wonder if they're going to bother coming back in to work tomorrow. Watson makes it look pretty primitive.

Internet search is a completely different domain than this sort of language lookup. Also, look at the hardware required to run this!

IBM should use this tech to one-up the content-scraper SEO junk sites. They should put out sites that are what the scraper sites purport to be and put them out of business.

maybe Google should buy them?

The web is not computing.

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