Posted on 05/03/2009 12:28:22 PM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
The website, Wolfram Alpha, launches later this month, and aims to provide a different approach to internet search queries by not only understanding peoples questions but answering them directly. It means web users can ask questions online in much the same way as they ask them in real life, a process known as natural search.
Some internet experts have dubbed Wolfram Alpha as as important as Google. The search engine is the brainchild of Stephen Wolfram, an eminent British physicist.
Our goal is to make expert knowledge accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime, said Dr Wolfram, as he demonstrated the search engine at Harvard University. Like interacting with an expert, it will understand what youre talking about, do the computation, and then present you with the results.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Ah. It showed up as a blank post until after I went to their site.
It was strange and unfamiliar to me.
I'll check it out, but I've been relatively happy with google.
>>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.
Okay, okay! She was out with me last night! Here... have a beer and forget about it!
Considering what some of these so-called “experts” say/believe nowadays, maybe we’d be better off not knowing.
I sure miss that show.
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.
Me too....
Fortunately I have 152 episodes taped..
What a godawful name!
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.
I have seasons 2, 3, and 8 on DVD from Ebay before they canned the sales of MST3K on the site.
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.
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.
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?
There are much easier ways to post the red X, you know. ;-)
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!”
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