Review my startup: An artificial intuition based Q/A engine.

Link: www.snolr.com

Snolr works best currently finding short facts which you might need on the go. It's an early release and I need to iron down many things, but some feedback would be great.

Although we were doing private beta, it made sense to release and get some real feedback, hence a highly controlled initial version of the system.

Here is a list of sample questions - Where was obama born? What is the real name of lady gaga? Where is Bolivia? What country is Manila in? What is the largest city in Southeast asia? What is the capital city of India? Who founded carnegie mellon? What is the world's longest railroad? What is the fourth largest city in france? When was bill gates born? Who founded the facebook? When did martin luther king junior die?

PS: I submitted this before, but maybe at the wrong time as I am in a different timezone. I am not sure if I am breaking a guideline, but it seemed important as for a single founder, I can really use some feedback.

How does this compare to other question answering systems?

It's far more scalable in terms of technology. It uses intuition techniques and minimal NLP. So we can scale it to almost any language. Moreover, the system is not only limited to answer questions.

Also, it requires much less data. Usually Q/A systems have this thing called the query planner. We don't. It takes a single run through normal search results to get the answer. The speed to get, process and return answers is less than 500ms when the index is not hosted locally, so that includes the fetching lag.

The algo is completely online. No corpus, whatsoever.

These are just some examples of the fact that under the hood, it's completely different from the usual Q/A system.

It's currently only on Android. Sorry.

We will support more platforms in near future. :)

snaw-ler.