WolframAlpha -new search engine which answers questions

peter999

Find answers to lifes's questions.

Anyone tried it, what do people think ??

WolframAlpha
http://www.wolframalpha.com/

peter999

thomas01155

Its well good ^.^ http://www93.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=poo

Baldur

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/google/5345125/Wolfram-Alpha-v-Google-Which-is-better.html

hotkee

thomas01155 wrote: »

Its well good ^.^ http://www93.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=poo

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

timbim_2

I'm sure that the syntax recognition of alpha will improve as the programmers gather real world data sets of the way people use it, allowing them to tune it to the way the users think. The scientific data in there will be useful, it's much better than some of wiki's data, the mean bond dissociation enthalpy data in wikipedia is really poor.

bat999

Hi
It's smart. :cool:
There's a write-up in the Guardian too.
Here :-http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/18/wolfram-alpha-search-engine-google-rival-semantic-web
Also it can be added to the Firefox search engine box, here:-https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11973

ps @ timbim Anyone recognise the avatar?
It's a Lorenz Attractor, a bit like this one here:-http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Lorenz_attractor.svg/600px-Lorenz_attractor.svg.png

Mobeer

So far, not impressed. Asked four simple questions like "longest bridge in Britain" or "oldest city" and it finds no results, but click the search the web link and I get a Google page giving links to the answers.

timbim_2

bat999 wrote: »

ps @ timbim Anyone recognise the avatar?
It's a Lorenz Attractor, a bit like this one here:-http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Lorenz_attractor.svg/600px-Lorenz_attractor.svg.png

Well done! Time for a change!

Marty_J

timbim wrote: »

the mean bond dissociation enthalpy data in wikipedia is really poor.

It has been the cause of many a sleepless night in our household, I can tell you.

timbim_2

Maybe not a problem for you, but it certainly is for me. Nicely done bat999. Anyone recognise my new avatar? This time drawing from chemistry. I'm a bit better at that than maths.

hotkee

Tried few searches, it just seems to be fact finder site (like wikipedia just worse than wikipedia for now at least) - what's the big deal I wonder.
Google will come up with something better no doubt.