Over at Ask, we've been doing this for many months. I first blogged about it in July.
blogoscoped.com/forum/45512.ht ...
A few examples.
Both:
Languages of Finland
ask.com/web?q=Languages+of+Fin ...
google.com/search?hl=en&lr ...
In addition, the Ask result also has direct links to other sources including Wikipedia, the BBC Profile for the country, and travel info. Finally, clicking Finland takes you to another result with more basic country info.
Ask Only
Birth rate Iceland
ask.com/web?q=birth+rate+icela ...
Birth Rate Iceland
google.com/search?hl=en&q= ...
Both
Ask
Prime Minister Australia
ask.com/web?q=prime+minister+a ...
Google
google.com/search?hl=en&lr ...
GDP Ireland (2004 number)
ask.com/web?q=gdp+ireland& ...
Google uses a 2001 number
google.com/search?hl=en&lr ...
Ask also does this for governors, U.S. States
Again, Ask includes direct links to the govs web site and an image of the
state flag.
United States info. example
governor New Hampshire
ask.com/web?q=governor+of+new+ ...
google.com/search?hl=en&lr ...
governor Massachusetts
google.com/search?hl=en&sa ...
ask.com/web?q=governor+massach ...
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Actually this feature work only at the google.com domain, but not at my national subdomain for example (www.google.co.hu).
compare:
google.co.hu/search?q=terrain+ ...
and
google.com/search?q=terrain+of ...
the Hungarian result page won't have the onebox :(
it didn't work on other national subdomain, either.. like:
google.co.uk/search?q=terrain+ ...
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google.com/search?hl=en&lr ...
Italy — Prime Minister: Silvio Berlusconi
According to en.powerwissen.com/tJFx3dgPiRo ...
what!?
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They've used an outdated version of the page. Facts should be checked from more than one source and not just once.
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I bet they do Ionut... they just show one sample link but you can also click on "more sources". I'm sure there's a threshold over 1... of course, I may give Google too much credit :)
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Roberto:
Is this better?
ask.com/web?q=prime+minister+i ...
As you can see we use several sources:
World Factbook
Wikipedia
BBC Profiles
and applicable in this case, travel info.
Btw, a good but not perfect source for world leader info (updated every two weeks or so) can be found here:
www.cia.gov/cia/publications/c ...
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"The Chief of State of
Italy is President Giorgio Napolitano, and the Head of State is President Of The Council Of Ministers Romano Prodi"
The answers should be: "Romano Prodi". There are two names in the phrase and I didn't ask who's the president.
Anyway, MSN and Yahoo are also not well-informed.
search.msn.com/results.aspx?q= ...
search.yahoo.com/search?p=prim ...
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Oh, ya – the sneaky Q&A feature again....
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Take a look at this:
Search Google for: % of African American in Los Angeles
google.com/search?hl=en&q= ...
At the top of the page is a Google Q&A answer – 11% – based on data retrieved from IDcide.com
idcide.com/citydata/ca/los-ang ...
But the site itself has been removed from the main index.
No pages in site command.
google.com/search?q=site:idcid ...
No pages in allinurl command
google.com/search?q=allinurl:w ...
No pages in info command
google.com/search?q=info:www.i ...
Crawling been done pretty recently.
There is an August 2006 cache.
64.233.179.104/search?q=cache: ...
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Thus a site that has been deemed good enough to serve as an Answer reference for the Google Q&A feature – yet has been banned from the main index.
Evil?
Ya betcha!
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