Texperts, AQA and Ask Terry go head-to-head, TONIGHT!
Liverpool Football Club are playing Besiktas tonight in the UEFA Champions League.
What an opportunity, I thought, to do a little trial between the top mobile question answering services here in the United Kingdom. During the game tonight, I am going to text five questions to each service. I’ll record:
- Question sent
- Time sent
- Answer
- Time answer received
Then publish the results.
I do need your help though: Please email me your suggestions for fiendish questions — related to either Liverpool Football Club or Besiktas — and I’ll pick the shockers and ask them.
This post constitutes fair warning, I reckon. I was deliberating whether or not to do the trial without informing them. But if they’re reading — I think Texperts and AQA often read SMS Text News, and I reckon ROK will be too — then that’s fine.
I will be as fair as possible, recording times and responses accurately — plus I’ll be texting the same question to each service. I think the results will be best judged on the responses and response times. I don’t intend picking a winner — I think that’d be quite difficult. Instead the responses & times should, I imagine, speak for themselves.
Standby… and if you’ve got a die-hard Liverpool FC nut sitting next to you, do email me your suggested questions — ewan@smstextnews.com.
Update: Here are the results.
What I really like about AQA is the way that they answer the slightly ‘off the wall’ questions, so you should ask questions like:
- Who will win the match (sent before kick-off)?
- Which manager has the most attractive wife?
- Is Peter Crouch taller than my dad? (He is by the way)
- Why on earth has Rafa grown that beard?
I look forward to seeing the results.
Patrick
Posted by Patrick on November 6th, 2007 at 6:34 pm.