Interesting - the next search engine

I'm not sure if this is pie-in-the-sky, or will it really work out - New metasearch engine leaves Google, Yahoo crawling:

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One day in the not-too-distant future, you'll be able to type a query into an online search engine and have it deliver not Web pages that may contain an answer, but just the answer itself, says Weiyi Meng, a professor of computer science at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
For instance, imagine typing in "Who starred in the film Casablanca?" The search engine would respond with "Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman."
Not impressed?
Try asking a more nuanced question, such as "What do Americans think of universal health care?" A search engine will create a report indicating trends in opinion based on what has been posted to the Web.
Search engines may eventually be used to conduct polling and even help sort fact from fiction, said Meng, who is helping to make such possibilities a reality, both through his research and as president of a company called Webscalers.
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This would be pretty cool if he can pull it off.


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