Wolfram Alpha Live Review: The Un-Google, by Chris Sherman, Search Engine Land (May 15)
One of many reviews to come on the soon-to-be -aunched Wolfram Alpha.
I’ve been playing around with Wolfram Alpha for a couple of days. In all, I agree with Danny’s “impressive” verdict. And it functions in a way that’s very different than any other search engine I’ve ever used. Even beyond impressive, the words that best describe the experience of using Wolfram Alpha are “fun” and “enchanting.”Wolfram Alpha’s interface allows you to enter queries in natural language. It then tries to disambiguate your query and present relevant facts, charts, illustrations and other supporting “tools.” If it can’t understand your query, you’ll see a “Wolfram Alpha isn’t sure what to do with your input” message, Sometimes it doesn’t have enough information to work with; in these cases you see a “development of this topic is under investigation…” message.
Has several examples with screenshots. We need time to study this.
Posted by Gwen at May 16, 2009 03:07 AM