Wolfram Alpha Testing

By Charles-Henry Ruyant

This weekend Wolfram Alpha (the new search engine) opened to the public. Wolfram Alpha is supposed to be the most accurate search engine due to the fact that it compiles data from a number of different sources.

 

A few weeks back I wrote a post about Wolfram Alpha and said that Wolfram Alpha wasn’t the Internet revolution expected by some. I maintain that this new search engine is a good evolutionary step but is far away from a new internet age.

 

Wolfram Alpha is easy as Google to use. Just enter almost any question and it is going to find the answer with a lot of extra detail. For certain topics Wolfram Alpha offers some interesting graphs.

 

Wolframe Alpha

Wolframe Alpha

 

Graph Wolfram Alpha

Graph Wolfram Alpha

 

Sometimes, however, the answers are not the most obvious. For example if you are looking for information on‘Clovis’ (who was the first king of France), Wolfram Alpha will provide information about the town ‘Clovis’ in the California. Even with the keywords ‘Clovis France’ Wolfram Alpha does not bring up the expected link, contrary to Google’s results.

 

Wolfram Alpha - Clovis

Wolfram Alpha - Clovis

 

Wolfram Alpha seems more like a Wikipedia search engine with exception that the information is accurate but also with less detail. Wolfram Alpha is a good tool with excellent technologies but once again it is not a revolution….


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JMed
May 28th, 2009

Wolfram Alpha is great for people who deals with numbers and calculations most of the time. But average searchers like me would still need typical search engines like Google.com, Find.com and etc.


Anjani Overton
May 28th, 2009

this is a great blog! so glad i found it. very informative

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