Quote from: bbc newsA 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
Quote from: cyphyr on May 18, 2009, 09:22:37 AM
Quote from: bbc newsA 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 (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
exactly, if you search for equations, astronomical stuff, chemical connections, then you will get really nice results
wish i could use this on all math/science tests... haha.
Exactly! This would be the ultimate cheat to bring into a physics final, or in my case my electrical exams.