Want an answer? Ask Encarta over IM
November 23rd, 2005 by alpriest
If you add encarta@conversagent.com to your MSN IM contacts list, you can ask it questions. Neat. It’ll even open Encarta in a sidebar in Messenger to answer your question in more detail.
From Chris Sells’ blog.

Surferbill says:
What is the average air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Encarta� Instant Answers says:
What do you mean? An African or a European swallow?