Category Archives: Search Engines

WolframAlpha, Where Are You?

Time will tell if it was Bing’s inherent abilities or Microsoft’s deep-pockets spending that caused the initial bump of 8% in unique users after the first month — but its clear what is suffering from a lack of Buzz … Wolfram Alpha.
About two months after its initial launch, there’s been thundering silence from the blogosphere / socialstream [...]

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How Many Geeks Are Even Trying Bing?

I think one of the great advantages that Google has isn’t just the strength of its search technology, or the bottom-line deliciousness of adwords / adsense.  Its really the thought leadership of what “Search” — and even, probably “The Internet” — means to so many ordinary people.
So much so, (and moreso than say, “Internet Explorer” [...]

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WolframAlpha == The Web’s Calculator

Much like everyone else, I had a quick peek at WolframAlpha over this past weekend.
My initial impressions?
With its applied use of the Mathematica engine to the Web’s content and user queries, but needing a human element to gather and curate that database, it feels like a cool new tool that needs a lot of work.
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