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Comment SpongeCell NLP Rocks My Socks (Score 1) 309

Reviewers have been going on about the natural language functions on Google Calendar, but having run some tests of my own I'm not all that impressed. Pollack Media Group ran a comparison of natural language calendars a while back and I used these same queries to compare the NLP functionality of Google's calendar and Web 2.0 upstart SpongeCell. In almost every instance SpongeCell performed better than GCal:

1. "Media Convention Friday through Sunday"
SpongeCell: Successfully added 3-Day/All Day event
GCal: Failed to add event, time, multiple days

2. "Conference call with Joe Smith monday at 2"
SpongeCell: Successfully added event
GCal: Successfully added event

3. "dinner with Jack and Cindy tonight at 7"
SpongeCell: Successfully added event at 7PM
GCal: Failed, added event at 7AM today (in past)

4. "flight to los angeles departs saturday at 9"
SpongeCell: Successfully added event
GCal: Successfully added event

5. "Call Dave at 10"
SpongeCell: Successfully added event
GCal: Failed, added event at 10AM tomorrow

6. "Arrange convention travel tomorrow"
SpongeCell: Successfully added event
GCal: Successfully added event

7. "Lunch with Jeff tomorrow"
SpongeCell: Successfully added event (at noon)
GCal: Successfully added event (all day)

8. "CSI viewing party tomorrow night"
SpongeCell: Successfully added event (8-9PM)
GCal: Successfully added event (all day)

9. "pick up Zoe for soccer at 4"
SpongeCell: Successfully added event
GCal: Successfully added event

SpongeCell consistently outperformed the NLP translation abilities of Google's calendar.
Seriously, I wish Google would stop spreading themselves thin and just stick to what they do best - putting ads on everything in sight.

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