Wolfram Alpha - what do you think

[cyphyr]

A web tool hailed as a significant rival to search giant Google has gone live to the public.

Wolfram Alpha is called a computation knowledge engine rather than a search engine and wants to change the way people use online data.

Well I tried to get it to find terragen or planetside and got no results. Anyone have any experience with this?
Richard

[Tangled-Universe]

A web tool hailed as a significant rival to search giant Google has gone live to the public.

Wolfram Alpha is called a computation knowledge engine rather than a search engine and wants to change the way people use online data.

Well I tried to get it to find terragen or planetside and got no results. Anyone have any experience with this?
Richard

I think it is not really designed for searching the www like you do with google. Looking at the homepage it seems it is more designed for technical/scientific queries which google can't (really) handle.

It seems quite useful however, for example:

http://www87.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=x%5E2+sin%28x%29

This function can be reproduced relatively easy in TG2 and you can already see the output of the function on the graphs.
For displacement-stuff etc. this seems quite useful.

Martin

[Walli]

exactly, if you search for equations, astronomical stuff, chemical connections, then you will get really nice results

[neuspadrin]

wish i could use this on all math/science tests... haha.

[matrix2003]

Exactly!  This would be the ultimate cheat to bring into a physics final, or in my case my electrical exams.