Google 2.0?Follow

Oldnews may be old, but I just found out about this.

Move over Google, introducing: Wolfram|Alpha.

It's apparently just getting started, so its functionality is limited. I.E. no internetz stuff. It looks like it could be an amazing tool for students and professionals, though.

I myself am amazed at how variable the entries are.

Once it gets more developed, it seems like it could be a very powerful tool. It's by no means a "Google Killer", I'm not sure if anything would be, but it's by no means a small development.

Meh. It didn't answer most of what I tried to get from it.

Agreed. When I tried messing around with it, it proved that it's certainly no Google.

It is by no means crap, though.

It seems to me that it's more of a tool to figure stuff out than a search engine. Kinda like an answer machine.

Interesting idea, absolutely horrible name. I didn't actually get to play with it because I got sick of listening to the jackass that came up with the thing explaining it to me.



Edited, May 19th 2009 1:07am by Turin

Sublimating wouldn't work. That's the process by which a solid turns into a gas with no intervening liquification.

Eroding kind of applies, but it doesn't specifically mean sand. I'm not sure there exists a word which means "turning into sand". Other than...sandification.

That's pretty cuil.