‘Google killer’ Wolfram Alpha gets public demo (important internet breakthrough)

Telegraph UK ^ | 5/1/2009 | Claudine Beaumont

[Tunehead54]

Popped right up in google: Wolfram Alpha ;-)

[null and void]

Ah. It showed up as a blank post until after I went to their site.

[End Times Sentinel]

I remember that website “Cuil” I think it was about a year ago.

It was strange and unfamiliar to me.

I'll check it out, but I've been relatively happy with google.

[netmilsmom]

>>I’ll check it out, but I’ve been relatively happy with google. <<

We changed every computer search to IXquick. Google tracks you, IXquick does not.

You know Google is working with the current administation. I’m not ready to search for “Hot Air” or “Townhall” on Google anymore.

[Bender2]

Re: Have you seen your coffeemaker lately?

Okay, okay! She was out with me last night! Here... have a beer and forget about it!

[Paved Paradise]

Considering what some of these so-called “experts” say/believe nowadays, maybe we’d be better off not knowing.

[RandallFlagg]

I sure miss that show.

[razorboy]

Doesn’t really sound like it’s terribly useful for what Google actually does. Google is still, in spite of all the decorations, a way to find a website, maybe it’s a website with an answer to some question, but probably you’re just looking for a website. I haven’t wanted to put a question in the Google box ever.

[TomServo]

Me too....

Fortunately I have 152 episodes taped..

[FreepShop1]

What a godawful name!

[sonofagun]

Wow...but...

There's no Wolfram Earth, no Wolfram Sketchup, no Wolfram Maps, no Wmail, no Wolfram Picassa, no...

OTOH, probably a good app for scientific inquiry.

[RandallFlagg]

I have seasons 2, 3, and 8 on DVD from Ebay before they canned the sales of MST3K on the site.

[TomServo]

Joel’s presentation was much better than Mike’s. As for the ‘stoned’ implication, it was part of the act. He was so fatigued from overwork during the first taped episodes, he just kept it as part of the act.

[bvw]

Shades of “IT”. No one wanted a goofy riding toy, and no one is going to want this product — as I understand it from this post — either.

[andy58-in-nh]

So do I.

[Windflier]

What a godawful name!

It's a typical egghead marketing mistake. Sounded good to him, and made sense in an egghead sort of way, so it ought to be a great name for a new world-wide search engine, right?

[Gondring]

There are much easier ways to post the red X, you know. ;-)

[RandallFlagg]

LOL!! I actually have that on tape when it was broadcast with Squirm. One of my favs.

“WOAH! Just about nailed me in the crotch there, Steve!”