google squared - some (not so) artificial intelligence

Google squared seems to be the answer to wolfram alpha. The difference is, that for google squared the content ist searched from the internet automatically. This can be very nice and sometimes even perfect. However almost every time you try something you will start laughing. Making it obvious that we are still miles away from something that could be called "semantic web".
For example try to square for "states". What do you expect? A listing of all 52 US states with some detail info, didn't you? Thats what seems to happen on the fist few pages, but when you scroll onto the last page, you find Estonia, Russia and Finnland in the list. QED. ;-)
One additional note: if you think it's better to search for "us-states", you are right. However there is another funny exception in the list. And this one is actually a lot more intuitive...

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