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by amichail 6305 days ago
You can already ask such questions on Google and get back answers in many cases in the web page snippets. Try this query for example: how many bones are there in the human body?

So if you don't normally issue queries of this sort on Google even though you would probably get back an answer in the web page snippets, then perhaps you would not find this new system all that useful.

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Google is great for finding random data, but the results generally require human perusal. You couldn't feed them into a running program without at minimum a hand-written screen scraper.