Wolfram Alpha Is Genius
Posted by Blerz on
May 16, 2009
Wolfram Alpha, the new search engine/comparison engine/scientific calculator/etc etc, is pure brilliance. I am loving the
simplicty – just plug in the data, and wolfram alpha will spit out stuff you didn’t even knwo you wanted – but it turns out you did. Isn’t that one of the definitions of a killer app?
For example:
Everyone’s favorite news topic, the H1N1 Virus, or Swine Flu
However, as brilliant as it is, it is alpha, so something like this:
Drake Equation from Google: 113k results
Drake Equation from Wolfram Alpha produces no results: Wolfram|Alpha isn’t sure what to do with your input.
That’s a query I would expect wolfram alpha to beat google at in the future, but even now should have something, even though Wolfram Alpha doesn’t cover user-generated data. Still, WA is going to be huge in the computing community – the real question is, where is the API, and what kind of apps can be made with this amazing tool to benefit the rest of the web?
