Knowledge-based problem solving system



Am I the only person reading this newsgroup who thinks that it is absolutely crying out for a knowledge-based website to handle the commonest problems - they come back time after time after time.

By a "knowledge-based website" I mean one that asks questions such as:
"Do your DVD's play back upside down"
and then offers appropriate advice if the answer is "Yes", or a different question if the answer is no. (Remove the Australian video drivers :-)

I wrote such a website designed to guess what animal you were thinking of. If it ran out of questions, it asked you for a new question, and added your animal to the database. After two days in public, no new animals ever got added -it had the "solution" to every conceivable "problem".

I'd even volunteer to host such a process on my webserver, if only to get rid of the chaff in this newsgroup :-)

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Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
http://www.ringers.org.uk
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