In recent years, Google has expanded its array of services that seek to directly answer users' queries, departing from its original strategy of sending them quickly to the most relevant site.
As powerful as Apple and Google seem, they both answer to customers and users.
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After taking the photo, the app prompts users to answer three simple questions: Is the water level dry, some or full?
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Jetson Creative, a software developer in San Francisco, has come up with an inventive answer to to the question iPad users are constantly asking: How can I simulate access to the outside world without having to expose myself to its insects and sudden loud noises and disconcerting shifts in barometric pressure?
Google and its competitors are trying to develop the knowledge and comprehension to answer specific queries, not just point users in the right direction.
The answer is that Siri users would need to issue approximately 50 to 75 queries every day.
To answer these questions, I recruited just over 100 users from my free bill-sharing site Splitwise.com to take a detailed survey.
The update to Google's search application for the iPhone, which Apple will release through its App Store software distribution service for the smart phone, will allow users to ask a question and get an answer from the Mountain View, Calif.
Google gave web site owners some tips for optimizing their sites, which were part common sense and part its observations of how Instant Previews preformed during testing (short answer: users are 5% more likely to be satisfied with their search results if they get to preview the sites).
The real-time chat service is widely seen as an answer to the mobile messaging apps becoming wildly popular among young smartphone users.
Question-and-answer sites typically rate low in engagement because users tend to visit in search of a particular piece of information and leave as soon as they obtain it.
In a statement, the group called on Facebook to answer two questions: Are private transactions being displayed publicly on Facebook without users' explicit permission?
The answer, I fear, is that it finds itself manipulating its users to engineer the growth.
The problem with legacy business intelligence is that the power to ask and answer questions is too often out of the hands of the end-users in large organizations.
In a question and answer session following the press conference, RIM declined to discuss whether it would be compensating users.
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Digital video recorders--the cable industry's answer to TiVo (nasdaq: TIVO - news - people )--allow users to record programs on a hard drive inside the cable box, as well as to pause or rewind live TV.
Instead, users are forced to spend time browsing several blue links that may or may not provide the answer to their questions.
Topics are created by users and continually revised and updated so that similar topics are unified to avoid the kind of answer bloat that befell Yahoo Answers and Answers.com.
According to Techcrunch, a technology blog, he was a conspicuously frequent visitor to a facility at Davos, a plutocratic Swiss shindig, where summit-goers could answer questions posed by YouTube users.
Users love Google, he says, because they find things there when they are desperate to know an answer.
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