Answer Bus

Just came across a really cool web site with some very interesting technology.  Go and take a look at Answer bus.  It is a site that answers questions by using multiple search engines and then doing a semantic analysis of the results to try and produce an answer.  I thought I would try it out with the question

• How do I correlate BPEL processes?

After a pause it came back with the answer and a link to the site providing the answer, in this case my own blog.

• Consenting BPEL processes will usually correlate messages using WS-Addressing headers to pass around magic tokens that act like the session cookies in a web application.

I can't argue with that!  The answer is also much more succinct than Google returns.  All in all a cool site to play with.

Here are some other burning questions you may want to try

• How do I build a dalek?
• How is easter calculated?
• Who is Larry Ellison?
  

Of course some questions still have no meaningful answer

• Where is my DVD remote?

Oh, and you may need to be patient, this is not the speediest site.