A great example of this type of “classic” answer engine is WolframAlpha. Founded in 2009, it was one of the first, and most well-respected, mainstream answer engines.

Search Engine Classes Targeted audience, number of visitors, quality of search and professionalism is what determines a search engine’s class.

Semantic search engines also consider the relationships between entities for returning search results. In contrast, purely keyword-based search systems only work on the basis of a keyword-text match.

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