OT: Brainboost again...

[Bill Vermillion]

I know you'll find it hard to believe, but on Wed, Jun 30 23:28 , Fairlight
actually admitted to saying:" 

> Hmmm. You know, this Brainboost search engine isn't actually
> bad. I threw a couple weird things at it:

>      Why did Christine Mcvie retire?
>
> This actually led me to a fact I hadn't known--that the last
> tour she was on ended early because she did. But one of the
> articles said "retired, pro tem," and I just drew a blank, as
> my Latin is uhm...next to non-existant--that's a dying-to-dead
> art, I'm afraid. So I tossed it:

....

> I'm not about to suddenly -switch- from Google to Brainboost,
> but I can see taking some of the more obscure questions not
> suited to keyword searches to this thing. It seems to deliver
> the goods, especially on esoteric things.

But you can't give up Google, as it will give answers that
you can find on Brainboost.  I just checked.

What is the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

Brainboost gave me nothing - and I did get more than I expected
from Google, but I did get the right answer of '42'.

And if you ask Google "what do you get if you multiply six by
nine" you also find 'the ultimate answer is 42'

And everything2.com, when queried about Nick Rhodes also did not
tell me his model of synthesize but you can see that his
daughter Tatjana has a cat named Yag.

I did the get the correct answers to 'What is the ultimate answer
however'.   Teoma gave me 'butthanger.com' for one of the top
queries, but about the 4th one down I did find '42'.

I've used Teoma for many searches for a year or so as it doesn't
overload me as Google does - and it doesn't seen to re-defined it's
categories every months or so either.

Bill

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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com