[shagie]

Was there a knowledge engine of some sort in the past? I could ask it some questions like “what color is a light red flower” and I would get back “a pink flower is pink.” Asking what color a purple cat was would get back purple… but asking what color a blue bird was would get back “a blue bird is blue, red, and brown.”

“Who has birthdays today?” And I would get a list of famous people with birthdays today. I could also ask if Alice and Bob (two names in the list) had the same birthday and I would get an answer (one time I think I got back some internal query language for it instead… but that’s lost in old bug reports).

Now any interesting question starts its answer with “according to an Alexa answers contributor…”