If you add encarta@conversagent.com to your MSN IM contacts list, you can ask it questions, e.g.
* What is the size of Mexico?
* When was Leonardo da Vinci born?
* How many calories are there in an orange?
* I want to see the map of Italy.
* When was Abraham Lincoln born?
* Solve 2x^2+7x=5
I especial love the "solve" thing. If I could figure out how to give it simultaneous equations, most of my boys' math home would be solved in IM...
And a sample from OUR conversation:
while my guitar gently weeps says:
What is the approximate airspeed and velocity of an unladen swallow?
Encarta® Instant Answers says:
What do you mean? An African or a European swallow?
Why don't you ask me something that's actually in Encarta? What is the largest country in the world? If you don't know, just ask me.
while my guitar gently weeps says:
african
Encarta® Instant Answers says:
Based on recent scientific studies, the average cruising airspeed velocity of an unladen African Swallow is roughly 11 meters per second, or 24 miles an hour.
OK, should we get back to the kind of questions I was designed to answer? Type "?" any time for examples of questions you can ask me.
# posted by masquerader @ 18:22 ::
