{"id":24176,"date":"2011-12-02T17:10:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T00:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/02\/siri-and-hanlons-razor.html"},"modified":"2011-12-02T18:23:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T01:23:01","slug":"siri-and-hanlons-razor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/02\/siri-and-hanlons-razor.html","title":{"rendered":"Siri and Hanlon's Razor"},"content":{"rendered":"

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" (http:\/\/wist.info\/hanlon-robert-j\/4285\/<\/a>) — i.e., search is hard, and writing brand-new voice-based search engines is even harder. #ddtb<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Gina Trapani<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

+<\/span>Danny Sullivan<\/a><\/span>'s great piece on Siri and abortion clinics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" (http:\/\/wist.info\/hanlon-robert-j\/4285\/) — i.e., search is hard, and writing brand-new voice-based search engines is even harder. #ddtb Reshared post from +Gina Trapani +Danny Sullivan's great piece on Siri and abortion clinics. 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