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by Game_Ender 5364 days ago
Try "will it rain tomorrow", or "should I wear a coat tomorrow"? Siri is an answer engine that tries to determine the meaning of your query and answer it. Google in recent years has started to add those capabilities to it's search interface, but it is not there yet.

Siri is much more like Wolfram Alpha or IBM's Watson then a standard search engine.
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Tichy 5364 days ago
Bullshit - Siri has some special loops for recognizing questions about date, location and the weather. That's it. It really is not more advanced than "call xyz", except it not only uses the address book, but also the calendar and the weather service.
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jonknee 5364 days ago
... Siri is a front-end to Wolfram Alpha and other data providers. It roughly identifies what you're looking for and forwards it along to the best data provider. Google has the advantage of being one of those data providers.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/apples_siri_teams_up_wi...

> As Siri CEO Dag Kittlaus once told us, Siri really is the "mother of all mashups."

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