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WolframAlpha in the wild
#27 | 3:31 |
Tuesday May 19, 2009
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Tuesday May 19, 2009
The latest challenger to Google's search dominance is Wolfram|Alpha. It's a contextual search engine and differs from other search engines in many key ways. WolframAlpha is being hailed as a victory for the "semantic web," where computers become more adept at understanding the context in language, as opposed to asking users to adjust to computer language.
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Quicktime Show Notes
- Check out Wolfram|Alpha
- Type in a birth date, like June 10, 1949 and add a city, like Detroit Michigan.
- Wolfram gives you all kinds of information about that date including:
- How long it's been since that date and today.
- Elevation of the city.
- Population of the city at that time.
- Format of the date.
- Type in the names of two companies to see how they compare on many levels.
- Type in a math problem like 25 * 10 - 12 and get the answer instantly.
- You can put in any math formula.
- Ask questions and check your results.
- There's a toolbar available for Internet Explorer, Firefox 2 and 3.
- Wolfram|Alpha helps make the world's knowledge computable.
- Type in a birth date, like June 10, 1949 and add a city, like Detroit Michigan.
- Wolfram gives you all kinds of information about that date including:
- How long it's been since that date and today.
- Elevation of the city.
- Population of the city at that time.
- Format of the date.
- Type in the names of two companies to see how they compare on many levels.
- Type in a math problem like 25 * 10 - 12 and get the answer instantly.
- You can put in any math formula.
- Ask questions and check your results.
- There's a toolbar available for Internet Explorer, Firefox 2 and 3.
- Wolfram|Alpha helps make the world's knowledge computable.
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