Comments on: What Exactly is Wolfram Alpha? http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2009-05/what-exactly-is-wolfram-alpha/ All your digital media goodness. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:42:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Glenn http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2009-05/what-exactly-is-wolfram-alpha/comment-page-1/#comment-87960 Glenn Mon, 18 May 2009 22:04:54 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/?p=9562#comment-87960 Yeah, tried the "velocity of an unladen sparrow" as my first query, and was happy with the response like everybody else. My second question though was just "when was the superbowl in 2009?" and it couldn't figure this one out. Nor many other variants, nor several questions I have asked since then. Rapidly getting tired of bothering with this thing, think in a few weeks I won't remember that it exists. Yeah, tried the “velocity of an unladen sparrow” as my first query, and was happy with the response like everybody else.

My second question though was just “when was the superbowl in 2009?” and it couldn’t figure this one out. Nor many other variants, nor several questions I have asked since then.

Rapidly getting tired of bothering with this thing, think in a few weeks I won’t remember that it exists.

]]> By: Ivan Y http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2009-05/what-exactly-is-wolfram-alpha/comment-page-1/#comment-87957 Ivan Y Mon, 18 May 2009 20:49:20 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/?p=9562#comment-87957 W|A team probably dies a little inside every time they hear "Google-killer" as their missing is a lot different (and tougher) that just indexing all the data. Matter of fact, W|A itself doesn't like being treated as another search engine -- http://www33.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+do+you+not+like%3F Anyhow, reading W|A"s gives a better appreciation of their mission. Also, check out these two sets of Easter eggs: http://mashable.com/2009/05/17/wolfram-easter-eggs/ and http://mashable.com/2009/05/17/better-wolfram-easter-eggs/ W|A team probably dies a little inside every time they hear “Google-killer” as their missing is a lot different (and tougher) that just indexing all the data. Matter of fact, W|A itself doesn’t like being treated as another search engine — http://www33.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+do+you+not+like%3F

Anyhow, reading W|A”s gives a better appreciation of their mission.

Also, check out these two sets of Easter eggs:
http://mashable.com/2009/05/17/wolfram-easter-eggs/
and
http://mashable.com/2009/05/17/better-wolfram-easter-eggs/

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