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Wolfram/Alpha's demo: Search results meet analytics

Updated: Stephen Wolfram, creator of the Wolfram/Alpha search engine, on Tuesday demonstrated his much ballyhooed "computational knowledge engine" at a talk at Harvard University. Wolfram likened his effort to reproducing a global reference library and said Wolfram/Alpha will launch in "a few weeks." Wolfram's demonstration was one...

Tags: Gross Domestic Product, Algorithm, Search Engine, Analytics, Knowledge, Data, Search Result, Wolfram/Alpha, Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram/Alpha Search Engine, Search, Engineering, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-28

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Bing, Wolfram Alpha agree on licensing deal

On Microsoft-Wolfram DealI think we are gradually seeing web dominance shifting from Google. Facebook now have bing search on their site, Microsoft has a search deal with Yahoo and now Wolfram. Rather than a dominante force that Microsoft once imparted on the Windows, peharps we would see a number of...

Tags: SEARCH, Bing, Wolfram Alpha, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., licensing deal

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

Bing: a present day "Dogpile"

My editor-in-chief Larry Dignan posted a short time ago about Bing, Microsoft's newly branded search engine. His first thoughts were that of positive ones and had a nice first impression of the site as: Bing is quick all posts; The interface is clean; ...

Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Microsoft Corp., Search, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-06-01

Wolfram/Alpha launches: Can it break out of niche-ville?

Wolfram/Alpha launches: Can it break out of niche-ville?Agreed. Tried it out.It can answer "some" questions faster then Google but still suffers the problem of you want to do further research even then to be assured Wolfram got it right. As I suspected, its much like Wikipedia; just a smaller...

Tags: SEARCH, Google Inc., search engine, Wolfram/Alpha

Discussion threads 2009-05-16

Wolfram Alpha has Google's attention

Wolfram Alpha has Google's attentionWolfram|AlphaI am excited to see what Wolfram|Alpha is all about. Unfortunately, I fear that it will turn out to be nothing more than a glorified "Google Calculator". Google already has functions within Google Spreadsheets which allow you to pull data regarding population, unemployment rates,...

Tags: Google Inc., Wolfram|Alpha, Wolfram Alpha

Discussion threads 2009-05-07