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Wolfram Alpha...ongoing impressions from day 1

Wolfram Alpha...ongoing impressions from day 1Great for science usebut no good as an internet street map.Never intended to be a Google killerIt was never meant to be a Google killer - and only foolish media that depicted it as one. Clearly it is not a search engine, but what it...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, SEARCH, Wolfram|Alpha, Wolfram Alpha, ongoing impression, Look-Up, search engine

Discussion threads 2009-05-18

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

Google: Looking over shoulder at Wolfram|Alpha?

Google's Sergey Brin, co-founder and president of the search giant, on Thursday delivered the company's annual "Founders' Letter" and apparently is keeping a watchful eye on Wolfram|Alpha. If you recall, Wolfram|Alpha is a much ballyhooed search tool that claims to understand what a user is asking via...

Tags: Google Inc., Sergey Brin, Wolfram|Alpha, Engineering, Channel Management, Search, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-07

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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 a blog!

Wolfram Alpha has a blog!Computation on massive datasetsI dont think your evaluation of Alpha is fair.Although I would agree it aint google killer, you seem to discount for the fact that it is a new kind of search?Computation on massive amounts of data, and the applications such technology can enable.At...

Tags: Blogging, Wolfram Alpha, Alpha, blog

Discussion threads 2009-05-12

More details emerge on Wolfram Alpha

Set to launch this month, Wolfram Alpha promises to be the next big thing from the same guy who transformed mathematical software. Ahead of its launch, though, we're seeing some details emerge that may position it as more of a Google Supplement than a Google killer. In fact, the...

Tags: Google Inc., Productivity, Search, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-05-10