Testing out Y! Q

So earlier today, Yahoo! (my employer) unveiled a new search component called Y! Q. It's able to form intelligent search queries based on a block of text within a given article.

So I'd like to test it out. However, I'm incredibly lazy on the blogging front, so I'll just post excerpts of existing entries and see how it fares.

If you read up on your Tango & Cash trivia, you may discover that Kurt Russell landed the celebrated role of "Cash" after Patrick Swayze dropped out. Original article
But now to someone I can't stand. Two words: Hilary Swank, man. She was in The Next Karate Kid, right? The role I invented. The franchise I nurtured and cultivated. Me. Does anyone remember The Next Karate Kid? Probably not, by my reckoning. Because she obviously couldn't fill my shoes (or traditional Gi, as it were.) Original article
Nothing really epitomizes glamour than a model perched beside a fire hydrant. These photos could be used in advertisements targeted to an audience of dogs, perhaps. Original article
Geraldo Rivera's head trapped in a vice, while flesh-eating squirrels peck at his face and progressively tear off his moustache. Original article

It does not appear to be working. Yet. Presumably, as of writing, it's still restricted to the yahoo.com domain. Or, they're still feverishly indexing Ralph Macchio links.

Update (1pm): It works now! You can thank me later for the direct purchase link to the Tango & Cash DVD.

02:21 AM 03 Feb 2005

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Well, I don't think it is limited to 'Tango and Cash'. I am having a really hard time getting Y!Q to give me relevant results. Maybe I am not using it properly. I dunno. I thought the whole point of the search being 'contextual' is that it would know what I am looking for, for me.

- daisy 04:16 PM 04 Feb 2005

Somehow it uses fancy AI wizardry to extract and prioritize prominent word groupings. So it picks up results for "Geraldo Rivera" and "flesh eating squirrels", but neglects "moustache". I imagine Geraldo would be totally offended.

- BK 05:28 PM 04 Feb 2005

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