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hey everyone, I recently came across this with a friend of mine and it seems to be quite a nice search engine. On the area of scientific knowledge definitely a great competitor of google since it no longer requires searching a lot of sites. The goal is to try and make the world computable, and they are trying to even make it respond well to natural language. Although there is still lots of room for improvement I really like it. http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Ferrarius wrote:hey everyone, I recently came across this with a friend of mine and it seems to be quite a nice search engine. On the area of scientific knowledge definitely a great competitor of google since it no longer requires searching a lot of sites. The goal is to try and make the world computable, and they are trying to even make it respond well to natural language. Although there is still lots of room for improvement I really like it. http://www.wolframalpha.com/

So far, all 32 queries I've made returned: "I don't know WTF to do with this." So much for revolutionary...I mean jeesh if they want to mimic apathy in a search engine, all they have to do is BING.

Remember its not a search engine for websites, its a scientific engine.

I like the way it handles equations. But it needs more music information.

-JL

Horrible, the authors failed miserably.

Brynet-Inc wrote:Horrible, the authors failed miserably.

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Trying to get all the useful information on the internet in one place has already been done, well: Wikipedia. Trying to compete with an entire-internet powered project is too big a task for any one company, which is why Alpha probably won't succeed. That is different than Google, which doesn't try to generate content, but instead automatically processes massive quantities of existing content.

Well, at least it knows The answer to life, the universe and everything

Couldn't resist...

It's "a new kind of fail".

I asked it the square of the cubic root of Pi and it spat out this:


F'ing terrible.

EDIT: it doesn't know "if x is nine what is x cubed."