Not too long ago, services like GOOG-411, 118 118 and AQA used actual humans to answer questions with witty responses and encyclopedic knowledge. Today’s search engines could learn something.
  • Matengor@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I didn’t even know about these services. It’s fascinating they were relevant for about ten years only. What a good read.

    • jeffw@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I had heard of them but had no idea there were so many of them or that they were so successful

    • Lmaydev@programming.devEnglish
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      5 months ago

      We did this for a friend’s birthday at uni. There were about 20 of us. Great night haha

      I used to love texting these numbers when drunk.