--[And if they can make it even partially accurate, then it´s just a matter of time before they make it super-accurate.]--

That is not true of every problem, particularly not the sort of problems AI turns up. See also: weather prediction.

Having said that, I typed in "ducks" and it said "We know factz[sic] about duck! Uses: bombs"

@Jason - Either its semantic search or not. The question is simple but quite specific because "ferret" is a rare word and "how long" is a specific type of question, if this thing is working in any state it should be able to discern the answer from the input. If they're working on it and its in this piss-poor state then they certainly shouldn't be publicising it and trying to wrangle $m out of investors.

Thought for a horrid moment that headline read "Symantec start up takes aim at Google". 

The idea of a Norton search engine taking over my computer....

@Geoffs:

They´re a STARTUP company. And, considering what they´re attempting, I´m not the least bit surprised if it starts out as inaccurate. If they can supply an engine that can answer 1 out of 2 questions accurately, they´ll have a major accomplishment, in my opinion.

And if they can make it even partially accurate, then it´s just a matter of time before they make it super-accurate.

I can imagine a situation where they have a free version that only researches your question for anywhere from 10 seconds to a minute, and a paid version that asks for a question and an amount, and attempts to answer the question for that amount. (Actually, it would probably be much more complicated, but I don´t want to annoy people with my analysis)

Type in "Is Microsoft evil". Note the second link. What a peculiar Vista.

Go on, ask it "How long do ferrets live?" the first two answers involve Sylvester McCoy and Rudi Guliani. Only the fifth result mentions ferrets in context and even then fails to answer the question. Complete twaddle!