Re: Search Engines: Inaccuracy in Basic Information

From: cryofan@mylinuxisp.com
Date: Sun Apr 27 2003 - 06:50:59 MDT

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    Nathanael Allison <jubungalord@hotmail.com> said:

    >
    > I recently searched for just basic world statistics on the net. I searched
    > for things like land mass, dollars per person (GNP), and population for
    > countries. I found that there were major differences in basic numbers. For
    > instance in the top 5 countries for land mass I came across 3 different
    > orders. Economy statistics were different on the 5 different sites I
    checked
    > out.
    >
    > What can be done about this? Is there programs that could either change
    the
    > info or tell the page/page owner that the info is wrong. Is this something
    > that will be around until AI can deal with it?
    >
    > Why do search engines work so screwed up? I just know basic programming
    > could someone explain to me why there are all these problems?
    >
    >

    Land *mass*? Curious stat, that one. Maybe you want "land area" or
    just "area" in square miles or Km?



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