[bnegreve]

If you query Google with a Jeopardy style question you won't have a valid answer as the first result, so at least for this particular application, yes it does a better job.

I'm sure there are plenty of reason to believe that this cannot be generalized to real world problem but no one here has given these reasons. So I am not really sure why people claim that it might not live up the the hype. (And I would genuinely like to understand).

[jijiwaiwai]

Watson is trained for answering those questions ,google is not. this is why some one can pee all his urine into a small cococola bottle on the ground from upstairs while others can,t:he trained himself and practiced a lot. if you need Watson help you with other things, you need to train him again.that's why you need apps for: do the training. you will find there's nothing different with training a SAS or R program. you are still on your own. there's no help you can get from Watson