Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Wolfram Alpha

I have read all these things comparing Google to Alpha.
On a forum website I saw someone who "tested" both Google and Alpha by searching on both of them a song on YouTube. Google "won" because it came up with the correct link to the song while Alpha said "Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input." But that is an INSANE "test" because Alpha isn't a search-engine. Its no trying to be a search-engine, its not trying to compete with google, because they are completely different. Alpha gives you information, it can do lots of hard math, tell you the scientific name, taximony and more on animals, etc. It does NOT search websites, it searches it's database which is getting bigger all the time. People complain that some of the information dates back to 2006, but that will soon change. Alpha has just started and has so much potential.

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