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By: introspective

introspective — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:26:26 +0000

I like Wolfram Alpha. It offers a completely new way of searching for information.

By: Biz

Biz — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:05:24 +0000

Wolfram Alpha is a good news in the area of search engines. It has some advantages compared to the other search engines. Still, it is not the competition to Google or other search engines, since it uses totally different approach. It is more like dictionary or encyclopedia than search engine.

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Bersenang-senang dengan Wolfram|Alpha « My Mind — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:36:36 +0000

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Mon, 18 May 2009 07:56:49 +0000

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By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 18 May 2009 05:33:41 +0000

This is definitely one of the most exciting developments in the history of the web – EV ER!

Time will tell if it will evolve into something indispensable or not for the average person, but it is definitely going to be one of the top sites for me…

Google and Yahoo! are probably already figuring out ways to copy it… if they haven’t been working on it for a while.

My only hope is that somebody doesn’t buy the technology and then ruin it by turning it into an advertising medium… although I guess they need to make money somehow… sales of Mathematica will hopefully improve, but they will need more money than that to support this incredible endeavour.

By: JustCallMeBen

JustCallMeBen — Sun, 17 May 2009 09:59:50 +0000

I just played around with it or a bit, an this is really, really amazing!!

But as the article said: this is far from a google-killer: Wolfram gives you the answers to questions google won’t, because Wolfram looks at the meaning of the question and looks for an answer, where google just searches for you question.

The most ridiculous thing I found on Wolfram so far: “How long is a 10 mile hike” and it even gave me the calorie count of that hike :D I could even give my weight and age, and it would adjust that :D

Wolfram isn’t a google killer, but it will answer question we might have googled before, but easily couldn’t find an answer for.
It’s just a new player in the information field. From now on, i I have a question, I’ll use the google-wikipedia-wolfram trio :D

By: fredh

fredh — Sun, 17 May 2009 01:56:45 +0000

It seems to me, a complete non expert, that the Wolfram system requires a huge jump in computing power over a traditional search engine. Google bots scan and categorize at their leisure, while Wolfram will have to scan all of the related data live at the time of the inquiry. I can’t picture that scenario being free for very long, if it’s even commercially viable at all.

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Sun, 17 May 2009 00:58:36 +0000

“unlike Wikipedia, it’s not dependent on volunteers getting things right”

Actually, they’re using ‘volunteer curators’ – though I suspect the initial batch are not volunteers. And much of the data is scraped from other sources such as IMDB and Wikipedia which may be inaccurate or incomplete as we know. I’m not sold yet… but I do like the clean presentation of the data it does offer and the PDF output is a pretty cool touch.

By: Tom B

Tom B — Sat, 16 May 2009 20:52:05 +0000

I really believe anything from Wolfram is worth watching, but I’m not selling my GOOG at this time. And maybe not next year either– the two services may end up complementing each other in their final forms, rather than stealing each other’s oxygen. Hard to say.