Comments on: Why WolframAlpha Sucks – it doesn’t know what WordPress is! http://blogdesignstudio.com/mini-blog/why-wolframalpha-sucks-it-doesnt-know-what-wordpress-is/ Best Wordpress Themes By Blog Design Studio Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:55:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: mayank http://blogdesignstudio.com/mini-blog/why-wolframalpha-sucks-it-doesnt-know-what-wordpress-is/#comment-12110 mayank Thu, 28 May 2009 07:52:55 +0000 http://blogdesignstudio.com/mini-blog/why-wolframalpha-sucks-it-doesnt-know-what-wordpress-is/#comment-12110 @ Marc @vivek - Thanks a lot for comment. Thanks for the appreciation and for the feedback, however I think you misunderstood my intentions for this post. I'm very much happy with WolframAlpha :) I used the tongue smiley (:P) to ensure that no one gets the wrong message, but I guess - I should have been more clear with it. <br /> I'm always in favor of new startups and new search engines as I love to see the competition, so I won't mind switching the search engine, if it'll provide me the search results that I'm interested in. Guess what! now a days, I spend most of my time on Twitter and I make a point that while doing any research, I use Twitter's search. :) <br /> Next time, I'll be cautious before making these kind of PJs (poor jokes) :P @ Marc @vivek – Thanks a lot for comment. Thanks for the appreciation and for the feedback, however I think you misunderstood my intentions for this post. I’m very much happy with WolframAlpha :) I used the tongue smiley (:P) to ensure that no one gets the wrong message, but I guess – I should have been more clear with it.

I’m always in favor of new startups and new search engines as I love to see the competition, so I won’t mind switching the search engine, if it’ll provide me the search results that I’m interested in. Guess what! now a days, I spend most of my time on Twitter and I make a point that while doing any research, I use Twitter’s search. :)

Next time, I’ll be cautious before making these kind of PJs (poor jokes) :P

]]> By: Vivek Khandelwal http://blogdesignstudio.com/mini-blog/why-wolframalpha-sucks-it-doesnt-know-what-wordpress-is/#comment-12109 Vivek Khandelwal Thu, 28 May 2009 03:10:29 +0000 http://blogdesignstudio.com/mini-blog/why-wolframalpha-sucks-it-doesnt-know-what-wordpress-is/#comment-12109 I want to agree to what u said but fortunately Wolframalpha is a computational search engine. Try putting a mathematical query into it. It responds quite decently to it. Being die hard fans of google we would try to bash thing that says " me kill google ." But then google has its own share of puches and some body needs to come around say " Hey -- hang on buddy " . coz for sure the yahoo's and the msn's of the world have given up long time back. I want to agree to what u said but fortunately Wolframalpha is a computational search engine. Try putting a mathematical query into it. It responds quite decently to it.
Being die hard fans of google we would try to bash thing that says ” me kill google .”
But then google has its own share of puches and some body needs to come around say ” Hey — hang on buddy ” . coz for sure the yahoo’s and the msn’s of the world have given up long time back.

]]> By: Marc M http://blogdesignstudio.com/mini-blog/why-wolframalpha-sucks-it-doesnt-know-what-wordpress-is/#comment-12108 Marc M Thu, 28 May 2009 01:05:34 +0000 http://blogdesignstudio.com/mini-blog/why-wolframalpha-sucks-it-doesnt-know-what-wordpress-is/#comment-12108 It doesn't suck. It's not a search engine, never was. It's a "computational knowledge engine". From Wolfram Alpha's own FAQ... "Is Wolfram|Alpha a search engine? No. It's a computational knowledge engine: it generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links." I enjoy your site and subscribe to your newsletter but please, please, please, don't go down the easy-answer, quick conclusion, stupid route. Dig just a little deeper. Please don't let blogging maintain its (current) reputation of, mostly, biased and superficial 'journalism'. Thanks, and I, generally, do love your blog. Marc. It doesn’t suck. It’s not a search engine, never was. It’s a “computational knowledge engine”.

From Wolfram Alpha’s own FAQ…

“Is Wolfram|Alpha a search engine?

No. It’s a computational knowledge engine: it generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links.”

I enjoy your site and subscribe to your newsletter but please, please, please, don’t go down the easy-answer, quick conclusion, stupid route. Dig just a little deeper.

Please don’t let blogging maintain its (current) reputation of, mostly, biased and superficial ‘journalism’.

Thanks, and I, generally, do love your blog.

Marc.

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