Google Wins ‘Jeopardy!’ Match-Up Against Bing

Tuesday, 01 February 2011 | by Pat's Picks

Google, says the New York Post, is the search engine that could. A computer scientist fed several search engines common “Jeopardy!” questions and tallied how many times each managed to come up with the correct answer. The search engines didn’t get any special favors—correct answers were only counted if they were in the form of a question.

Google came in first, getting the correct answer 69 percent of the time. Ask.com was second, with 68 percent and Bing came in third, with 63 percent. The Post says in comparison, the average person gets the right answer about 60 percent of the time. But a spokesman for the show scoffed at the engine’s results and said: “Fifty to 60 percent accuracy would not even qualify you for ‘Jeopardy!’, never mind let you compete with champions.”