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Wolfram Alpha shows flights overhead

Wolfram Alpha, the online search service launched two years ago, now lets inquiring minds in the United States find out what flights happen to be overhead at any given moment.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 21

Wolfram Research introduces new programmable document type

(PhysOrg.com) -- Wolfram Research, the same folks who brought us both Mathematica, and Wolfram Alpha (see here, here, and here), the search computation site, is now announcing via Conrad Wolfram’s blog, that it has designed a new ...

Technology / Software

created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Wolfram Alpha answer engine best of show at SXSW

A new Wolfram Alpha search engine that delivers factual answers to online queries instead of links to Web pages won top honors late Sunday at the South By South West (SXSW) awards ceremony.

Technology / Software

created Mar 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Promising new trends in Web search engines

The Internet is a vastly different place than it was 15 years ago, but the way consumers search it has changed very little.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Bing luring Internet searchers: comScore

Microsoft's new Internet search engine Bing boosted the software giant's share of the US market in the week following its release, industry tracking firm comScore reported Tuesday.

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created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New Web tool WolframAlpha launches test run

Google rules the roost when it comes to Internet search and has easily brushed aside efforts by Yahoo!, Microsoft and others to knock it off its perch.

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created May 16, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 13

Review: Flaws in Web's much-touted WolframAlpha

(AP) -- When a free Web service called WolframAlpha launches in the coming days, the general public will get to try a "computational knowledge engine" that has had technology insiders buzzing because of its ...

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created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Wolfram Alpha 'Knowledge Engine' is Like a Modern Farmer's Almanac

(PhysOrg.com) -- Currently, there's a lot of hype and skepticism surrounding the latest "Google rival," a so-called search engine named Wolfram Alpha. In the near future, anyone with Internet access will be ...

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created May 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 5 weblog

Wolfram Alpha Could Answer Questions that Google Can't

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new search engine described as an "electronic brain" could make searching the Internet more intelligent. Called Wolfram Alpha, the search engine computes its own answers rather than looking ...

Technology / Internet

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (35) | comments 17 weblog