Wolfram Alpha

[Karlos]

Rather useless, I'd say. 99% of times Google is more of your friend, and usually it doesn't give answers to trivial questions. Thumbs down.

People seem to be completely unable to grasp that this isn't a search engine. It's a computable knowledge engine. They are completely and utterly different.

If the system has a downfall it will primarily be due to this, I suspect.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Then they got a totally wrong image of WolframAlpha.
It's something totatally different, and Google (the company) might well be interested

Something that would be even more interesting, if they'd make an engine which extract and handle relations between indexable/computable data.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

I think some people are missing the point. It's not supposed to give you trivial information or return search results. Read the FAQ if you want to understand its purpose.

IMO the AI behind it is more exciting than the actual usefulness of it. Imagine what it could mean for human-computer interaction if the parser were developed to a sufficient level to accurately interpret spontaneous language, and the database were complex enough that the computer could make sense of, and respond appropriately to, whatever you say to it.

IMHO it's incredibly dumb if you don't see what the intentions of this website are. Really really dumb. Unbelievable.

[hooligan]

People seem to be completely unable to grasp that this isn't a search engine. It's a computable knowledge engine. They are completely and utterly different.

If the system has a downfall it will primarily be due to this, I suspect.

I know whats it for. Tested it already yesterday and quite a lot today. Still it doesnt give any answers to many trivial questions, while google does. Conclusion, a) it simply doesnt work b) has too little data to be of any use