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This is certainly not ridiculous. It is very legitimate to wonder whether systems involving more AI such as Watson are going to take over standard search techniques or not. Regarding Bing, it is as you said: Microsoft has been chasing Google but Watson is a totally different approach so the question is still open.

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The concept of the AI is not what I am disputing, it's this particular story. There is no expansion on how it will replace it and equally dismisses Google's algorithm as simple to replicate.

I don't see it as replacing search either, people search for websites. What is the end result, that Watson replaces all sites on the internet with it's own dynamic page filled with its own information?

How would Watson choose how to display the information it returns to me? Am I getting the full story?

This article breezes over so many specifics I cannot take it seriously.

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