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JECHO
May 17th, 2009, 07:32 AM
Read about it here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/165034/wolfram_alpha_a_test_run.html

Or check it out directly here: http://www.wolframalpha.com/

EDIT: I didn't know so many of you were going to bash me for leaving out little details. :rolleyes:
billgoldberg
May 17th, 2009, 07:39 AM
This has nothing to do with Google.

Wolfram is pretty cool if you search for facts or math stuff.

But it has some factual errors still.
lisati
May 17th, 2009, 07:43 AM
Apparently I was born on the same day as Fernando Valenzuela.....

I also asked about one of the movies in my DVDcollection, "Sleeping Dogs". It picked the correct movie and that Warren Oates was in it. (Movie buffs might know him as "Sgt. Hulka" in "Stripes".)
JECHO
May 17th, 2009, 07:48 AM
This has nothing to do with Google.

Wolfram is pretty cool if you search for facts or math stuff.

But it has some factual errors still.



I meant that it served as a search engine similar to google.
myusername
May 17th, 2009, 07:50 AM
I meant that it served as a search engine similar to google.

you are still wrong. it's not a search engine, it's more of a online computational engine
lisati
May 17th, 2009, 07:51 AM
I meant that it served as a search engine similar to google.

It doesn't know anyhing about Ubuntu!
penguindrive
May 17th, 2009, 08:31 AM
Sounds like something from the venus projet(google it, or watch "zietgiest addendum"), this could prove interesting.
pwnst*r
May 17th, 2009, 09:24 AM
wow. the thread title doesn't get much more misleading than that.
binbash
May 17th, 2009, 09:41 AM
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1160878
gjoellee
May 17th, 2009, 11:00 AM
you are still wrong. it's not a search engine, it's more of a online computational engine

I would say it is a search engine for knowledge
Vostrocity
May 17th, 2009, 11:27 AM
It's a geeks-only search engine!
Kareeser
May 17th, 2009, 01:39 PM
I wonder how it "learns"... if it doesn't know what to do with "Ubuntu", or in my case, "Family Guy", then it should parse the web and learn, right?

I wonder what'll happen in three days, if we search those terms again.
lovinglinux
May 17th, 2009, 02:05 PM
I meant that it served as a search engine similar to google.

You should change the thread title then.

Actually, this thread could be merged with the other one announcing the service.