Or that reference sites like Answers.com and Wikipedia, with thousands of preprogrammed responses, also draw a blank?

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The company hopes to be at the vanguard of a new way to approach reference: relying on laypeople for answers rather than experts or authenticated sources.

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Summly simplifies and boils down the content of Web pages--reference material, news items, Quora answers, you name it--to a few bullet points.

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