In yesterday's article I focused mainly on Watson. So, in case you missed the episode last night, BIG SPOILER ALERT, Watson won. Ken was actually pretty close after Double Jeopardy; in fact he was leading after the Jeopardy round. If Ken would have bet bigger in Final Jeopardy it wouldn't have been a gigantic blow out...
Now, in today's article I wanted to focus specifically on how incredible Google's search technology is. Below are the 5 categories from the Jeopardy round and a sample of questions from each category. Beneath the question is the answer and whether Watson was wrong. Beneath the answer is the result of a Google search and how easily and where the answer could be found.
Question: Each year the EU selects capitals of culture; one of the 2010 cities was this Turkish "meeting place of cultures"
Answer: Istanbul
Google: 2nd result, right in the title
Question: Elected every 5 years it has 736 members from 7 parties
Answer: Parliament
Google: 1st result, right in the title
Question: As of 2010 Croatia & Macedonia are candidates but this is the only former Yugoslav Republic in the EU
Answer: Slovenia (wrong)
Google: 4th result, had to search the content, but it was there
Question: "A bronx tale"
Answer: Robert de Nero
Google: 1st result, the description
Question: "The Great Debaters"
Answer: Denzel Washington
Google: 1st result, the description
Question: While Maltese borrows many words from Italian, it developed a dialect of this semitic language
Answer: Arabic
Google: 1st result, right in the title
Question: Aeolic, spoken in ancient times, was a dialect of this
Answer: Ancient greek
Google: 1st result, right in the title
Question: Gambler Charles Wells is believed to have inspired the song "The man who" did this "at Monte Carlo"
Answer: Broke the bank
Google: 1st result, in the description
Question: Nearly 10 million youtubers saw Dave Carroll's clip called this "Friendly Skies" airline "breaks guitars"
Answer: United Airlines
Google: 1st result, in the description
Question: 99 cents got me a 4-pack of Ytterlig coasters from this Swedish chain
Answer: Ikea
Google: No results!
Question: A 15-ounce VO5 moisture milks conditioner from this manufacturer averages a buck online
Answer: Alberto (wrong)
Google: 3rd result, in the description
Question: It's an abbreviation for Grand Prix Auto Racing
Answer: F1 (wrong)
Google: 2nd result, in the title
Question: An additional section placed within the folds of a newspaper
Answer: Insert
Google: 1st result, in the title
Question: William Wilkinson's "An account of the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia" inspired this author's most famous novel
Answer: Bram Stoker
Google: 3rd result, in the description. Must be noted, that the first two results where regarding tonight's episode of Jeopardy!
As you can see, Google in itself is pretty good! Published on Feb 17, 2011 Tags: jeopardy
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