[nickcarraway]

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[TheWasteLand]

Wolfram Alpha: A New Kind of Search Engine

It's a search engine for people who think "google" isn't a stupid enough name for a search engine?

He just should have called it Mathimatica 2: Electric Webagoogaloo.

[Randy Larsen]

I’ve been waiting patiently for Wolfram Alpha to launch, I can’t wait to test drive it!

[period end of story]

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

[BigSkyFreeper]

Ask Wolfram about the average speed of an unladen swallow (doesn’t matter if it’s African or not), and Wolfram will give you the non-answer you’re looking for. It even cites the source...

Or ask this one.... How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man?

If you happen to not know where you're at, it will tell you.

Then there's the age old question: Why did the chicken cross the road?

Wolfram even knows the answer to the question on life, the universe and everything.

I've only seen this happen once:

[cynwoody]

Fun little toy. But no threat to Google.

Suppose you wanted to know how many quarters per ounce?

You could start at Wikipedia (via Google of course – Google searches Wikipedia much more effectively than Wikipedia). So. Courtesy of Wikipedia, you now know a quarter weighs 5.670 grams (forget the troy ounces, they're for the light in the loafers). Next step: ask Google what is 1 ounce / 5.670 grams. Um. I think the answer is five quarters to the ounce.

Now try it with Wolfram.

[exist]

I tried Googling my name on that thing. Piece of crap.

[the invisib1e hand]

great. one more step and the dumbing down will be complete.

[GOP Poet]

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