Monday, March 09, 2009

New Web Project

I find this new project to be very intriguing. A website that actually answers factual questions rather than doing a basic web search. As a librarian this could be really helpful with some questions. For example, we often get a teenagers that come to the desk and say something like "I need to do a report on Anthony III." And I'll have to do a reference interview to determine just who exactly Anthony III is before I can continue. Sometimes there may be more than one Anthony III. If I can type "Who is Anthony III" into this new tool and get a quick answer then I'll know where to begin my real research.

3 comments:

Grace said...

Hhhhmmmm...

Hm.

FRL_devinwithani said...

i saw about that too. do you listen to the 'this week in tech' podcasts?

gg said...

I think I cam across this story on metafilter. Metafilter is everything that is wonderful about the internet.