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11 November 2004

What is the Capital of Canada?

According to the new Microsoft search engine...

What is the capital of Canada?

um, General Electric?

“Unlike the existing, “big three” search engines – Google, Yahoo and AskJeeves – the new MSN Search attempts to answer specific questions such as: “What is the capital of Turkey?” with a single-word answer, as well as performing a traditional keyword search.”

Granted it’s still beta, but come on. If you’re going to make such claims, how hard can it be to get the capital of your nearest neighbour right.

Update: It appears the above query has since been fixed.