3. Asking Siri for Information

Siri exists to serve. It wants nothing more than to provide information to you—about almost anything in the universe. Siri provides answers to questions about everything from the weather to stock prices, through integration with the apps that come with your iOS device. Questions outside the realm of the built-in apps on iOS are no problem for Siri. It knows how to work with Wikipedia and Wolfram Alpha, and it searches the Web through Bing, Yahoo!, and Google to find the best possible answers to whatever you ask. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to phrase your conversation to maximize the probability of getting an accurate and detailed answer.

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