WE ARE ONTO YOU, YOU WOLFRAM ALPHA BIG LIAR YOU!
Dear Wolfram Alpha: Are you Skynet? Really, ARE YOU?
What goes on under the hood at Wolfram Alpha is a mystery to my simple mind, but after seeing the results of this search, I hope whatever it is gets an overhaul quickly.
Here I was, thinking that Apple was this tiny David fighting the Microsoft Goliath. Rebels vs Empire my arse. Wolfram Alpha—with its clearly presented data—has opened my eyes, giving new light to the classic flamewar:
Wolfram Alpha, the dorktastic computational search engine, got off to a bit of a rocky start when it launched last night. At least its first fail message had the foresight to include a HAL reference.
A May 18th launch date has been set for Mathematica’s compelling, proudly nerdy computational search engine. I still think they should’ve called it Googol. [Wolfram Alpha via Pocketlint]
Technology Review did something obvious with their access to Wolfram Alpha: they plotted the computational search engine against Google. The results? As we knew, Wolfram Alpha is no Big G. It’s completely different, and awesome.
Wolfram—the magical search engine that will channel all kinds of data to give you coherent answers—is almost here. You can’t access it yet, but you can see it working in this video. [NYT and Lifehacker]
Get ready, because the world as we know it is going to change in May 2009, when Wolfram Alpha—a computational search engine that belongs in the Enterprise’s computer—appears, giving you precise answers to everything.
