NEW YORK, March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Brainboost today unveiled a new version of its popular http://www.brainboost.com/ site, powered by an improved Brainboost Answer Engine utilizing Brainboost's patent pending AnswerRank(TM) Technology. For the task of answering questions posed in plain English, Brainboost renders other search engines obsolete by leapfrogging what can be achieved with natural language processing technologies.
Brainboost can answer questions posed in plain English as opposed to simply directing users to pages that mention the question, like existing engines do. Brainboost represents a fundamentally different way to find knowledge on the web. Whereas Search engines force users to spend time scouring for an answer by tediously reading through search results, Brainboost does this work for the user by automatically reading hundreds of search results and extracting just those precious answers to the user's question.
"When you add up the time we all spend plowing through search results for answers to our questions, Brainboost's functionality translates into hours of time saved and the discovery of information we may never actually have found when searching manually." said Assaf Rozenblatt, Founder and CTO of Brainboost.
While search engines like Ask Jeeves and MSN have recently made limited attempts at answering questions from finite structured databases such as encyclopedias or pre-canned editorially collected answers, Brainboost is the only commercial engine that successfully leverages the full knowledge available on the web with its ability to understand even the most complex unstructured document. For Brainboost, any web page or document on the Internet is a potential answer source.
"We believe that Brainboost has solved the last mile of search on the Internet. Right now a user needs to go through as much as seven steps to find an answer to most questions. This is a time consuming process that is not always successful. The Brainboost Answer Engine collapses that process into a single step that takes seconds", said Assaf Rozenblatt, Founder and CTO of Brainboost.
A study conducted by Brainboost confirmed that while all major search engine barely reach a 50% success rate in providing the answer to a users question in the first page of search results, Brainboost clocks in at about 87%. When looking at how many of those actually had the answer as the first result, the gap is even wider at 23% for all search engines and 75% for Brainboost. Search Engines examined in this study include: Ask, Google, MSN and Yahoo.
By finally allowing users to pose questions in plain English, the Brainboost Answer Engine will change the way users search the web. Some examples of questions and answers facilitated by the Brainboost Answer Engine follow:
Q: Why is the sky blue?
A: The sky is blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light from
the sun more than they scatter red light.
Q: How does an optical mouse work?
A: An optical mouse works by sending a single LED infrared optical pulse
out (a red flash of light), which is then measured by a small sensor
(basically a low resolution high zoom camera).
Q: How many people in the United States are on the Atkins diet?
A: According to Atkins Nutritionals, about 25 million people in the United
States are on the Atkins diet. In the UK, sales of Atkins books have
topped 2.5 million copies.
For the past year Brainboost, in stealth mode, has been operating the now popular BrainBoost.com search engine. Brainboost has become a popular destination for web savvy users wanting to get an answer to a question. The enthusiasm of millions of users has resulted in a highly accurate Answer Engine leveraging the millions of questions Brainboost has been asked over this time frame. With every day that goes by, the Brainboost Answer Engine becomes more intelligent, benefiting from the feedback gained from its users and the growing knowledge base it continues to amass.
