Thread: Wolfram|Alpha will it change your life?

from wikipedia:

Wolfram Alpha (also spelled WolframAlpha or Wolfram|Alpha) is an answer-engine developed by Wolfram Research. It is an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data, instead of providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer.[3] It was announced in March 2009 by British physicist Stephen Wolfram, and was released to the public on May 15, 2009.[1]

It will compute everything you want to know thats factual data.

Having played with it a little - it seems extremely limited at the moment. Very hit and miss.

Google is still the king and will be a for a while I think.

Ya I tend to agree, some of my searches tend to be error prone. city, state for example: if there is multiple cities, it will choose any one of them even if not in your state.

its a cool site tho im having fun there now

Originally Posted by relly666

Having played with it a little - it seems extremely limited at the moment. Very hit and miss.

Google is still the king and will be a for a while I think.

I have to agree. Although this is a great idea. Yahoo answers fails so miserably.

Is really useful if you don´t have a Math software installed.