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MSN Search Beta - Help with homework ?

try this out... 5x+4=30, so what is the value of x ?

no idea ? - Perhaps the MSN Search Beta can help you out...

pretty cool eh !

- Mike

Posted: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 8:34 PM by mikehall

Comments

Sanat Gersappa said:

Awesome!
# November 16, 2004 9:01 PM

Dean Harding said:

Ha! It's a "my search tool has cooler 'hidden' features than yours!" :)

It also does the standard "15 persecs in cm" like google does, but google will also give you an answer for "half a cup in teaspoons", whereas msn doesn't.

I do like the fact that msn still does a search on the term, whereas the google calculator gives you the result and nothing else - what if you really wanted to search for the string "half a cup in teaspoons" instead of working out how many teaspoons in a half a cup...
# November 16, 2004 9:01 PM

Mike said:

I just happened to catch the end of a presentation today and saw this being demonstrated - I thought that was pretty cool.

I've had Google as my homepage for quite some time now but have decided to give MSN Search a try - It's interesting how you get used to the UI and result look and feel for your search engine of choice - Google for example has a very clean UI and clean results, nice.

- Mike
# November 16, 2004 9:09 PM

David Beckham said:

Try teaspoons in 0.5 cup on MSN for the answer :-)
# November 16, 2004 9:28 PM

Ruud van Nistelrooy said:

Come on--Becks isn't clever enough to figure that out by himself! Who are you really?
# November 16, 2004 10:10 PM

Ruud van Nistelrooy (again) said:

Does Becks have a way to make it solve for all the roots of equations with exponents, or just the first ones it hits?

Even if not, it's very impressive. I won't tell the kids yet, though, as I want them to learn algebra the old-fashined way!
# November 16, 2004 10:45 PM

Jose said:

"Get 177 more results for '5x+4=30' with MSN Encarta Premium." @http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/searchdetail.aspx?q=5x%2b4%3d30&pg=1&grp=ans

:)

# November 16, 2004 10:56 PM

Becks said:

Try x^2 + 3x + 5 = 45
# November 16, 2004 10:56 PM

INGENIUS said:

I have never seen a feature like this before on any other search engine in my life, no no not at all. Google doesnt do this at all, nope, it doesnt.

Have you patented this?
# November 16, 2004 11:09 PM

Marcus Mac Innes' Blog said:

# November 17, 2004 2:11 AM

Kevin Jump said:

what we need now, is it to show the working out too;

5x + 4 = 30
5x = (30 - 4)
x = 26/5
x = 5.2

mind you it wasn't this easy in my day ...
# November 17, 2004 12:18 AM

Kevin Jump said:

of course

speed of light in furlongs per fortnight
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=speed+of+light+in+furlongs+per+fortnight

is the real test of a search engine
# November 17, 2004 12:20 AM

the Genie said:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=the+answer+to+life+the+universe+and+everything
# November 17, 2004 12:26 AM

.Net Adventurer said:

Great!
# November 17, 2004 12:26 AM

known said:

by msn too:
http://beta.search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=the+answer+to+life+the+universe+and+everything&FORM=QBHP
# November 17, 2004 12:33 AM

Webjunkies said:

As you might have heard, MSN are beta-testing their new search technology at the moment. Along with the usual website searching, they've also added Googlesque calculation features! Let's try some... 0.5 cups in teaspoons Google: 0.5 US cups = 24...
# November 17, 2004 6:41 AM

Frederik said:

It can't handle things like e^(Pi*i)+1, though, something Google can calculate...
# November 17, 2004 4:16 AM

Mike said:

Perhaps MSN Search should be renamed to "Deep Thought".

- Mike
# November 17, 2004 7:15 AM

David's Blog said:

# November 19, 2004 2:59 AM

David's Blog said:

# November 19, 2004 3:02 AM

msnsearch's WebLog said:

# November 19, 2004 7:23 PM
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