Tehremos
Parcel of ol' Crams
+128|6378|Somersetshire
It will answer questions too

seems quite interesting

http://www.itpro.co.uk/610121/british-s … fram-alpha

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

"London-born scientist Steven Wolfram is to launch his very own advanced search engine dubbed Wolfram Alpha, which will let users ask a computer a fact-based question – and have it work out the answer."
Finray
Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro
+2,629|5758|Catherine Black
Aww
I wanted to use it now.
https://i.imgur.com/qwWEP9F.png
FFLink
There is.
+1,380|6661|Devon, England
SHame about the URL name.

I think google's so popular because it's so easy and simple to type.
FatherTed
xD
+3,936|6470|so randum
So i could go;

Mr Search Engine, here's my essay title, answer it please

and it would try?

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TopHat01
Limitless
+117|5875|CA

FatherTed wrote:

So i could go;

Mr Search Engine, here's my essay title, answer it please

and it would try?

Cheez
Herman is a warmaphrodite
+1,027|6409|King Of The Islands

cuil was "not just another search engine too".

half the people here wrote:

wat?

the other half wrote:

hoo yeah I remember that
My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.
KEN-JENNINGS
I am all that is MOD!
+2,973|6602|949

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style … 78109.html

http://bytesizebio.net/index.php/2009/0 … ram-alpha/

There has been a lot of buzz recently about Wolfram’s new product, the Wolfram Alpha (WA). After attending a webinar on WA, I was given a preview account, and started messing around with it.  In case you were wondering, that is the extent of my involvement with Wolfram Research, LLC, I don’t even have a Mathematica license. After playing around with WA for a few hours, I can safely say the following: it’s different, it’s incomplete, it’s idiosyncratic, and it’s  funky cool. And  no, it will not dethrone Google, nor does it aim to do so. Pish-posh.
It’s Different

Stephen Wolfram describes WA as a “computational knowledge engine”. It is not a web search engine: the information is curated and internal to WA, not searched over the web. Neither is WA an encyclopaedia: the information it provides on any topic is rudimentary, and mostly calculable. If you enter a country’s name, it will give you its GDP, GNP, size, population, but not its history.  WA is more like an almanac with computational capabilities.

Yes, you can look up facts, like the GDP of Germany,  the population of London, or the height of the Eiger.  But the real power of WA lies in its ability to take data that can be numerically represented, and compute new relationships. A simple example is who has the larger population: Los-Angeles or New-York, and by how much?
I'm thinking this has better applications for specific users/industries than for the general population.  Still, interesting and undeniably cool.
chittydog
less busy
+586|6805|Kubra, Damn it!

FFLink13 wrote:

SHame about the URL name.

I think google's so popular because it's so easy and simple to type.
You clearly don't remember go.com. That was easy. Yahoo.com is easy. Infoseek was pretty easy. Live.com is too. So were ask.com, Excite and goto.com. Google dominates because of the quality of its results.
Locoloki
I got Mug 222 at Gritty's!!!!
+216|6610|Your moms bedroom
I predict my first question

"Is Jesus for real" will crash the web server
HaiBai
Your thoughts, insights, and musings on this matter intrigue me
+304|5454|Bolingbrook, Illinois

chittydog wrote:

FFLink13 wrote:

SHame about the URL name.

I think google's so popular because it's so easy and simple to type.
You clearly don't remember go.com. That was easy. Yahoo.com is easy. Infoseek was pretty easy. Live.com is too. So were ask.com, Excite and goto.com. Google dominates because of the quality of its results.
That, and the fact that Google has been based on simplicity and fast web page loading.  All of those other search engines have a crap load of other stuff on them.  I've done two research's on Google for school, after preparing a report on it for over 3 months, I think I would know.
GodFather
Blademaster's bottom bitch
+387|6190|Phoenix, AZ

HaiBai wrote:

chittydog wrote:

FFLink13 wrote:

SHame about the URL name.

I think google's so popular because it's so easy and simple to type.
You clearly don't remember go.com. That was easy. Yahoo.com is easy. Infoseek was pretty easy. Live.com is too. So were ask.com, Excite and goto.com. Google dominates because of the quality of its results.
That, and the fact that Google has been based on simplicity and fast web page loading.  All of those other search engines have a crap load of other stuff on them.  I've done two research's on Google for school, after preparing a report on it for over 3 months, I think I would know.
Yeah, Yahoo and all them have a bunch of SHIT on the pages, its like old school AOL where they thought it was cool to flood your monitor with pictures of shit you dont care about...
AussieReaper
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
+5,761|6123|what

Finray wrote:

Aww
I wanted to use it now.
https://i.imgur.com/maVpUMN.png
TimmmmaaaaH
Damn, I... had something for this
+725|6410|Brisbane, Australia

I dont really see the point. It just lists things you could have found out/worked out yourself from wikipedia or google. Hardly revolutionary.

Pretty sure I could work out the pop. difference of New York and Los Angeles without it.
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cowami
OY, BITCHTITS!
+1,106|6260|Noo Yawk, Noo Yawk

Locoloki wrote:

I predict my first question

"Is Jesus for real" will crash the web server
sowwy, you lose

https://i39.tinypic.com/1214z8i.jpg

EDIT: http://www12.wolframalpha.com/input/?i= … rything%3F

Last edited by cowami (2009-05-17 19:02:40)

https://i.imgur.com/PfIpcdn.gif
KEN-JENNINGS
I am all that is MOD!
+2,973|6602|949

TimmmmaaaaH wrote:

I dont really see the point. It just lists things you could have found out/worked out yourself from wikipedia or google. Hardly revolutionary.

Pretty sure I could work out the pop. difference of New York and Los Angeles without it.
It's about saving time and work.  Why go to 5 different sites (or even wiki and google) to look up something when 1 site can do it for you?  The applications for certain industries and individual sciences is what is driving the research and queries - the fact that it will be useful for the average internet user is a plus, but just a byproduct.
TheEternalPessimist
Wibble
+412|6590|Mhz

Hmm well it calculated Pi to 4000 decimal places for me, it's a bit limited though, i'll be staying with google.

EDIT:

"Can you find me porn?"

"Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input."  yeah, deffinatly sticking with Google.

Last edited by TheEternalPessimist (2009-05-18 12:33:19)

liquidat0r
wtf.
+2,223|6597|UK
This is actually pretty cool, once you've realised how to use it properly. It doesn't answer questions as such - it just provides the answer on the actual site, rather than giving you a link to a site that has the answer. Or something like that.
_Dominiko_PL
TITS or gtfo.
+97|6491|Polish state of EU
FatherTed
xD
+3,936|6470|so randum
will it be reference able though?

nope.
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zeidmaan
Member
+234|6385|Vienna

I searched for John Connor and it said that he is dead
Freezer7Pro
I don't come here a lot anymore.
+1,447|6167|Winland

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The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
AussieReaper
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
+5,761|6123|what

^typical it would equate faggots in a butt to be Americans.

/uherdme
https://i.imgur.com/maVpUMN.png
AussieReaper
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
+5,761|6123|what

Aha, found the son of a bitch:

https://i39.tinypic.com/2mw5cg4.png

Turns out he is in Hungary.
https://i.imgur.com/maVpUMN.png
DefCon-17
Maple Syrup Faggot
+362|6126|Vancouver | Canada
So a butt contains 18 faggots...That's handy to know.

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