Wolfram Alpha is a search engine that you can use to compute systematic knowledge immediately. You can put in anything you would like to know and you can compare multiple results with each other. There is no need to know how to search; just type in what you want to know.
The population of San Diego for instance. Or the population of San Diego compared to Los Angeles.
Wolfram Alpha contains 10+ trillion of pieces of data, 50,000+ types of algorithms and models, and linguistic capabilities for 1000+ domains. You are free to try Wolfram but since this is a test version you can expect a heavy load.
You can read how to use Wolfram Alpha for health here:
http://bit.ly/VjTZ1
…..and it sucks. Google FTW
It’s as if someone took a poop on a piece of crap. Almost makes the launch of the Segway seem successful.
The demos look phenomenal and I’m really impressed by the relevance of the mathematical, and scientific data they have made available. I believe geeks, scientists and engineers would be the ones using it most, though its too early to say whether such a product would have mass appeal. Definitely impressed though.
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It’s something totally new, a real knowledge engine, totaly differnt from Google. I tried it yesterday and I’m not sure how to use the time beeing, but I guess it’ll help a lot in the future.
Also, there are some funny things you can search for, I made a list of those I became aware of:
http://tvundso.com/2009/05/16/spass-mit-fun-with-wolfram-alpha/
Wolfram Alpha is a huge pile of FAIL, ahahaha
Wolfram Alpha was the inevitable direct-to-fail sequel to the Cuil soft office flop.
There are rumors now that development has begun on a third installment of the FAIL franchise.
Wofram alpha state on their website they have 5.4M unique visitors daily (http://tinyurl.com/pwobdf) when Compete shows they have 70′000 monthly…
Now it is showing only 401,166 visitors daily (not unique).
And now they show 1.9M daily and compete still 70′000 monthly :-) Data war :-)
I think they made it only for highly educated people, not for a common man.
Wolfram Alpha is definitely a great computational engine, but not a search engine. Not a “Google Killer”.
More: http://tech.amitbasu.org/2009/wolfram-alpha-a-test-drive/