The New Google Sets

Up until yesterday, I didn't even know what fuzzy logic was. Then I read about a new playground for Google technologies that made use of it. Cool, I thought, so I read about it.

Google Sets is now available, so I gave it a try. Typing "Chicken, Turkey, Quail" yields a list of other birds. Not bad. "Getting Closer, A Matter of Trust, Big Man on Mulberry Street" yields a track listing for Billy Joel's The Bridge, but oddly also includes Root Beer Rag. So I tried searching for "Tim Wakefield, Charlie Hough." It returned a list of 15 other knuckleballers throughout history. This is the coolest thing I have ever seen.

May 21, 2002 - 10:00 AM