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Many times we find Google able to give appropriate answers when you are looking for something, especially with their built in calculator/formulae/conversion and other tools integrated in search. Today I wanted to know when was Deepavali (note the Tamil word I am using here instead of Hindi Diwali) this year. Without thinking much, I typed in IE 7 Search Box Deepavali 2007 and to my surprise I got the correct answer from Live Search. Check out the screen shot below. Google didn't understand what I wanted and gave me usual web links as results
Interestingly, Live Search seemed to know about most of the Indian Festivals including Pongal, Holi and others. Impressive stuff by Microsoft, please keep it up.
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