Test Driving the Wolfram Alpha

SilverMind writes in to note a blog entry at Byte Size Biology describing in detail a few hours spent with Wolfram Alpha (which we have discussed before). "After playing around with Wolfram Alpha 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."

Comments

Interesting Market for Wolfram

[mizzouxc]

I never thought I'd see Wolfram compete in the search market. However, this isn't much of a surprise to me after reading The World is Flat
Apparently, Google and many others use complex mathematics to figure ouch which porn site has the best, free content! On a more serious note, it's nice to see Google is getting some competition. The Wolfram search appears to be easy, yet also simple; something that Google has pioneered.

Re:Needs a better name

[larry bagina]

You're thinking of richard stall (as in bathroom) man. True fact: his given last name is "Wilson". "Stallman" was a nickname from the 70s. (Hey, it was the 70s, no AIDs, and lots of cock and pussy to be had).