[LINK] AnswerBus European web query system

[Roger Clarke]

At 9:22 +1000 19/9/06, Tom Worthington wrote:
>I found that a number of hits to my web site were coming from 
>something called "AnswerBus" <http://www.answerbus.com/faq/>:

To be fair to AnswerBus, there are a lot of confounding Roger Clarkes 
(and some might say 'confound*ed* Roger Clarkes' as well).  It hasn't 
done *too* badly (although, as reported a while back, Zoominfo does 
better).

I tried to return the compliment:

Question:
What does Tom Worthington do all day long?
Possible answers:   XML   TXT
Unfortunately, I don't know the answer to your question.
Your question has been sent to Wondir where live people may answer 
it. Click here to see the responses.

Now is that:
(a)  the result of a poorly phrased question?
(b)  demonstration that answerbus satisfies the Tuering Test?!

My second attempt got the same response:

Question:
What is Tom Worthington's expertise?
Possible answers:   XML   TXT
Unfortunately, I don't know the answer to your question.

Judging by its reasonably appropriate response to my third attempt, 
it appears to have a limited 'understood' vocab:

Question:
Who is Tom Worthington?
Possible answers:   XML   TXT
1.	Tom Worthington Tom.Worthington at tomw.net.au
2.	Tom Worthington tom.worthington at tomw.net.au
3.	Tom Worthington FACS tom.worthington at tomw.net.au Ph: 0419 496150
4.	From: Tom Worthington tom.worthington at tomw.net.au
5.	Information: Tom Worthington FACS tom.worthington at tomw.net.au 
Ph: 0419 496150
6.	Tom Worthington is an independent
7.	Tom Worthington is director of the ACS communication 
technologies board.
8.	Tom Worthington is an e-business consultant to the Australian 
Government, author and industry analyst.
9.	Tom Worthington is an independent consultant, providing 
advice on information technology strategies, the design of web sites 
and use of e-commerce systems.
10.	Tom Worthington is an independent consultant , providing 
advice on information technology strategies, the design of web sites 
and use of e-commerce systems.

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