16. A device employing the method of claim 11 comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of a computer, a server, and a portable electronic device.
11. A computer-implemented method for facilitating determination of search query answers, comprising: employing a processor executing computer-executable instructions stored on a computer-readable storage medium to implement the following acts: extracting structured content and associated metadata from a plurality of web pages on the Internet at crawl-time, wherein the structured content includes tables that specify relationships between strings of information; indexing the structured content utilizing the associated metadata; storing the indexed structured content in a database; obtaining a query from at least one user; ascertaining a question focus and an answer type based upon the obtained query; searching the indexed structured content stored in the database based upon the question focus; identifying a plurality of candidate answer strings for the query based upon one or more relationships specified by the indexed structured content, wherein the one or more relationships include the question focus such that the plurality of candidate answer strings conform to the answer type; providing feature information included in a feature vector for each of the plurality of candidate answer strings, wherein the feature information includes a set of features that describe characteristics of an answer, the set of features including at least one source feature relating to a source from which a particular candidate answer string was extracted, and at least one answer type feature relating to an intrinsic property of the particular candidate answer string; ranking the candidate answer strings based on the feature vectors; and providing the ranked candidate answer strings to the at least one user.