Google Q&A

There a good post detailing Google's new Q&A feature today on the News Breaks section of the Information Today web site. The new Google service gives you "answers" (as well as the usual list of search results) when you type in a question. For example, if you type in "when did thomas jefferson die" (click here to run this query in Google), you'll see that the first item above the search results says:

Thomas Jefferson
Date of Death: 4 July 1826
According to http://www.who2.com/thomasjefferson.html

This feature is worth knowing about but maybe not worth relying on in any regular way.