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Worth a read, but if they just conceded that cpedia was an exercise in dadaism, their defense would be a lot more convincing ;)



I looked up cpedia for the first time and though dadaism did occur to me, it's not really fair. After all, it's not actually random.

Every paragraph in the resulting page was somehow related to my keyword. The only problem is that the paragraphs weren't very well connected. ;-) Of course, solving that would be a major AI breakthrough.


Your example is probably more likely to be an outlier.

I've done several searches, some of the most disappointing were singular searches of pretty much any animal you could think of - returned nothing.

The search for "cow" is particularly bad, returning no entries for what you would expect (a cow), but 3/10 entries returned duplicate entries for cow dung.




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