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veryangryman

I generally find boards way handier to answer questions specific to myself like "Do you remember that old grump from the shop across the way" or general local stuff like that. The human and (more importantly) irish crowd on this usually knows the answer.

Anyone think the same? Id obviously google more formal stuff like "Why do cats burry their pooh", but if i had specific questions like "Where did my shoes go", boards would be the site of choice.

wobbles-grogan

So really, your saying:

boards > google for some things
google > boards for other things.

Yep, think I summed that up nicely!

flutterflye

What colour should I dye my hair?

veryangryman

flutterflye wrote: »

What colour should I dye my hair?

The pinker the better.

Your welcome

Fluorescence

Until Boards has an autofill function where it guesses the rest of your query whilst you type, I vote Google :P

Scioch

The way I found my way to Boards was by seeing it as a top result on google with the topic tittles and posts really closely matching my own searches which were usually long rambling questions and deciding "feck google I'm going straight to the source".

Even before I joined I viewed baords as a place where every question an Irish person would ask has been asked and a place where every single topic has been covered. I used it for ages in place of yahoo answers or ask jeeves type things before jumping in and joining the fun.

CardBordWindow

veryangryman wrote: »

I generally find boards way handier to answer questions specific to myself like "Do you remember that old grump from the shop across the way" or general local stuff like that. The human and (more importantly) irish crowd on this usually knows the answer.

Anyone think the same? Id obviously google more formal stuff like "Why do cats burry their pooh", but if i had specific questions like "Where did my shoes go", boards would be the site of choice.

Shhhhh.... you'll make google angry!

Nothingbetter2d

veryangryman wrote: »

I generally find boards way handier to answer questions specific to myself like "Do you remember that old grump from the shop across the way" or general local stuff like that. The human and (more importantly) irish crowd on this usually knows the answer.

Anyone think the same? Id obviously google more formal stuff like "Why do cats burry their pooh", but if i had specific questions like "Where did my shoes go", boards would be the site of choice.

if you spelled bury and poo correctly google might give you better results

AnonoBoy

If I'm bored sometimes I wear goggles.

Giblet

wobbles-grogan wrote: »

So really, your saying:

boards > google for some things
google > boards for other things.

Yep, think I summed that up nicely!

A venn diagram would have helped.

Lapin

Google for 6,385,367,985 different answes in 2.43 seconds.

Boards for 6 smartarse answers if people can be arsed.

flutterflye

veryangryman wrote: »

The pinker the better.

Your welcome

It's darkish purple/magenta atm, so I'll just go lighter - thanks

veryangryman

flutterflye wrote: »

It's darkish purple/magenta atm, so I'll just go lighter - thanks

:eek: Sorry i didnt know you were a woman - should have spotted the username!

I hope for my own sake that this is the last time i mistake genders. :pac:

The_B_Man

Time to drop some knowledge:
Its the difference between syntactic web and semantic web.
Google is keyword based so it'll return results based on simply matching words in your search query.
Boards, since its real people, can give answers based on the meaning of your query, regardless of the keywords used in it.

You're welcome :cool:

keithsfleet

The_B_Man wrote: »

Time to drop some knowledge:
Its the difference between syntactic web and semantic web.
Google is keyword based so it'll return results based on simply matching words in your search query.
Boards, since its real people, can give answers based on the meaning of your query, regardless of the keywords used in it.

You're welcome :cool:

Jasus who let him in the club

wobbles-grogan

The_B_Man wrote:

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Look up IBM's watson for further info. They basically built a computer able to understand the MEANING of a sentence, or question on this case. Its very cool if you think about it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFR3lOm_xhE