A post at the Web Standards Project alerted me to some great Web standards materials at the MACCAWS site. I don’t know about you, but when I look around at most school Web sites I see a lot of sites that could use Web standards makeovers. If you’re looking for a Web standards primer for yourself or a well-written document that you can give to a decision maker in your organization, the MACCAWS articles look like a great start.
Daily Archives: 4/7/2005
Google does Q&A
Lots of people have posted today about Google’s new Q&A service. SearchEngineWatch, for example, has a useful summary.
Let’s try some sample Q’s and check Google’s A’s:
- who is governor of minnesota
- what is the population of canada
- who wrote war and peace
- who was neil armstrong
- what is the length of the mississippi river
Not bad. Google is getting to be a better crossword puzzle helper all the time. The value of factual knowledge continues to approach $0.00 and we keep asking students to memorize this stuff.
Update: Google Weblog is making a list of other kinds of questions that Google Q&A can answer.