maximilian ping
Grrrrr
who types in What or Why or Who in a search engine?
British search engine 'could rival Google'
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kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Normal people for whom conditional searches are like a foreign language i.e. most of those on the net.
fen_boy
Exits gracefully.
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
I just watched the video demo - it's awesome, really really cool, and looks to be operating in a completely different space from Google.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
To be fair to that book, which, for my sins, I read right through, it has some great ideas in it – his programs generating snow flakes and shells are really good. It's just that he isn't the new Isaac Newton that he clearly thinks he is.
He's based in America now, so this is an American search engine really.
I'm not surprised Wolfram wants a search engine named after him that will usurp Google. That there isn't one already is clearly an affront to his genius.
Silva
This went well.
Wolfram, heh? Now they need to get a partnership with Hart, start a law firm and let hell break loose on earth 
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It's not a matter of people being fed up with Google... If something more suitable for some searches appears, people will use it. For instance, when Wikipedia stopped being the nerd-pedia around early 2004, a lot of people admitted they simply looked for information there instead of googling it (I do it for TV series episodes info, for instance). When Twitter boomed, others said that when they had doubts on something that could require some trial and error googling, they just asked other users there.
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It's not a matter of people being fed up with Google... If something more suitable for some searches appears, people will use it. For instance, when Wikipedia stopped being the nerd-pedia around early 2004, a lot of people admitted they simply looked for information there instead of googling it (I do it for TV series episodes info, for instance). When Twitter boomed, others said that when they had doubts on something that could require some trial and error googling, they just asked other users there.
Gromit
International Man of Misery
Bad Wolf!
Have i got this wrong but isn't this the thing thats been described as a knowledge engine.
A search engine searches for webpages. Those pages show ads or whatever to survive.
What this guy will do is raid the world's webpages for info, show the info on his site and give no-one any money for the putting the info on the web in the first place.
Kind of a reverse Robin Hood. Or have I got this wrong?
Have i got this wrong but isn't this the thing thats been described as a knowledge engine.
A search engine searches for webpages. Those pages show ads or whatever to survive.
What this guy will do is raid the world's webpages for info, show the info on his site and give no-one any money for the putting the info on the web in the first place.
Kind of a reverse Robin Hood. Or have I got this wrong?
Gromit
International Man of Misery
Can we Wolfram bomb it (like a google bomb) to say George Bush?
No I think he's just repackaging the results of user searches into a more user-friendly format.
Bernie Gunther
Fundamentalist Druid
Its an interesting idea. Calling it a 'search engine' is highly misleading though. It's a fancy new knowledge management tool based on some interesting maths.
It is awesome. I can't even begin to pick apart how it works.
Some of the example phrases he feeds into it in the demos I have seen are extremely vague- you wonder what would happen if he was specifically looking for a particular interpretation- how prescriptive the search terms would need to be to get what you want.
What I have seen so far makes me want to play with it though- there are plenty of times I have wanted some information (say, on median wages against average rental/mortgage payments over time) and had trouble getting it- this will really automate that for me. I have great hopes for this
Some of the example phrases he feeds into it in the demos I have seen are extremely vague- you wonder what would happen if he was specifically looking for a particular interpretation- how prescriptive the search terms would need to be to get what you want.
What I have seen so far makes me want to play with it though- there are plenty of times I have wanted some information (say, on median wages against average rental/mortgage payments over time) and had trouble getting it- this will really automate that for me. I have great hopes for this
ivebeenhigh
Well-Known Member
i think i am going to watch the launch live :geek:
intro looks ace
http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html
intro looks ace
http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html
cybertect
It's grim up north (London)
cybertect
It's grim up north (London)
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=
picked it up from the chat form that's running alongside the launch broadcast.
picked it up from the chat form that's running alongside the launch broadcast.
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Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
nice little system
but not a search eingine as such
but not a search eingine as such
I have been having a bit of fun with it. I find that it will print colours if you input the name of the colours separated with a comma and there are no less than 3 colours. I went through the spectrum, red, orange, yellow green cyan, blue, indigo, magenta, purple and it printed them in order. I then added crimson ahead of the red and it printed that. The I got silly and tried grey and then light grey and dark grey (dark grey came out lighter than grey for some reason) then I tried white which it did and then magnolia which it didn't recognise, then brown which it produced and taupe which it produced.
I tried adding two colours together with a + sign as if it was a maths sum bit it didn't understand. I did get it to produce a yellow green colour by just putting yellow and green together but there has to be another colour in the list. When I put yellow blue together without a comma it printed them separately.
I tried adding two colours together with a + sign as if it was a maths sum bit it didn't understand. I did get it to produce a yellow green colour by just putting yellow and green together but there has to be another colour in the list. When I put yellow blue together without a comma it printed them separately.
cybertect
It's grim up north (London)
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
fucker keeps timing out on me
I get
I tried to install Wolfram into my Firefox search list but it gave an error message because it is only compatible with older versions of Firefox. Come on Wolfram get up to date.
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