Answer engines were supposed to fix search. Instead of ten links and ten minutes of clicking, you ask a question and get an answer. Apple is building something called World Knowledge Answers. Perplexity has been at it for a while. ChatGPT taught millions of people to ask questions in full sentences. Google added AI Overviews above their link lists.
They all share the same flaw: every query starts from zero.
You ask about PostgreSQL connection pools exhausting under load. You get an answer about increasing pool size. You try it. It does not work. You come back and say "I tried that, it did not help." A useful system would remember what you just asked and go deeper - connection leaks, long-running transactions, something in the ORM configuration. Instead, you get the same surface-level answer again, or you have to re-explain your entire situation from scratch. At 3am with production down, that is not a minor annoyance. That is a tool failing you exactly when you need it most.
The other problem is that none of them know anything about your situation. They do not know where you are, what time it is for you, what you were working on five minutes ago. When you ask "should I reschedule my Monday meeting," they cannot factor in your calendar, or the weather, or the thing you mentioned two questions ago. You get a generic answer delivered quickly. Speed without relevance is just noise.
These are not edge cases. This is what happens when you optimize for impressive demos instead of actual usefulness. A fast answer that ignores your context is not help. It is a party trick.
We are building Momor to work differently. Real-time data wired in so "right now" means something. An intent engine that understands what you are actually asking. "People Also Ask" that anticipates your next question before you ask it. It takes longer because it is doing more, and we think that is the right trade.
Apple is about to launch their version. They will optimize for the same things everyone else optimizes for. We are optimizing for something different.
Follow Momor as we build it.