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UK based Wolfram Research are attempting the holy grail of search – the ability of an Internet search engine to understand questions in natural language and deliver relevant answers.

Most associated with Ask, this technology has long been the dream of the information retrieval scientist. Whether or not it can be done remains to be seen. I find it hard to believe that, even with just the English language to go on, it would be a huge undertaking, bearing in mind the varying speech patterns of English-speaking countries and the complexity of our language.

I would have thought that Google, with it’s many millions of dollars and it’s vast army of scientists, would had looked at this utopian ideal – and if it was a viable proposition, would have put a team or two on it.

Still, I wish them good luck – it will interesting to see how they get on.