nownow.com
November 21st, 2006
Amazon’s lastest product nownow.com is one of the coolest thing I have seen. It’s now in beta and I would imagine that they will charge a subscription for it soon. It lets you ask any question you want in humand readible language. So I asked:
| Question: |
| Where is the closest public bathroom to 3 Hanover Square NY NY 10004….um like NOW! |
| Asked: Nov 21, 2006 2:44:40 AM GMT |
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| Answers: | |
| Answered within: 3 min 5 sec Worked for: 3 min 2 sec |
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| Answered within: 3 min 42 sec Worked for: 3 min 35 sec |
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| Answered within: 5 min 32 sec Worked for: 5 min 3 sec |
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This Rocks!!
How it work is that it do some search to find out if it has the answer. If it doesn’t, it will farm out to MechTurk.com for 2 cents a question. People who are willing to do the research also compete for quality of the answer ranking to win a weekly prize of $1000. Man, I can be on this thing all day…
Another job well done.
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1. award tour » nownow&hellip | November 21st, 2006 at 5:34 pm
[...] 2 percent off center » nownow.com. kavin has a prime example of how nownow can be quite useful. [...]
2. ayn blog&hellip | November 28th, 2006 at 5:43 pm
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Kavin told me about this new cool service at Amazon, it’s pretty damn useful, especially when you’re too busy to Google stuff yourself …
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