Not too long ago, services like GOOG-411, 118 118 and AQA used actual humans to answer questions with witty responses and encyclopedic knowledge. Today’s search engines could learn something.
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I didn’t even know about these services. It’s fascinating they were relevant for about ten years only. What a good read.
I had heard of them but had no idea there were so many of them or that they were so successful