• by Steve Smith , Staff Writer @popeyesm, August 31, 2007

How many home runs were hit by the Baltimore Orioles between 1953 and 1959? Google has its strengths, but answering such precisely worded queries isn't yet among them.   That's because answering such a question requires compiling an index of databases - an enormously time-consuming process. But at least one startup, Enth.com, is attempting to amass just such an index. Enth started with sports stats -130,000 rows of baseball data from partner Stats, Inc., to be precise - with the goal of creating a search engine to serve the fantasy sports world. Ask Enth the question, "Who had the most wins for the Cubs in a season since 1980?" and it spits out a custom page listing the top ten most winning pitchers. Enth will follow Google's monetization model and match ads to results, says founder John Grace.