While doing some math homework (and being throughly stuck) I discovered Wolfram Alpha saying I'm excited by this discovery would be a massive understatement. Calling it a search engine wouldn't do it justice so I'll give it the term that it describes itself as, that is an answer engine. Entering a query doesn't give a list of webpages but information on that query, here's an example when ran on [url=http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=armorgames.com] Armor Games. As exciting as it would be to get information on webpages it doesn't stop at that not even close, inputting any city will give you information on location, population, and up to minute information on weather. To top it all off it's one of the best ways I've found to solve any mathematical equation from determining X when 2+X=3 or graphing and finding the roots of polynomials.
So, in order to avoid this being called spam, have you found any other note worthy uses for it? Has it given you information that you needed or were interested in? Basic discussion and such.
Wikipedia: Wolfram Alpha (styled Wolfram|Alpha) is an answer engine developed by Wolfram Research. It is an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data, rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer as a search engine would. It was announced in March 2009 by Stephen Wolfram, and was released to the public on May 15, 2009. It was voted the greatest computer innovation of 2009 by Popular Science.
I saw this could somehow attract users from Google, answers.com, etc. Since this "answer engine" almost knows everything there is needed to know it would be very useful to many people. I haven't tested its fullest capabilities yet but will be reporting info about it soon enough.
I actually heard this is very helpful for homework and math in particular. It can solve lots of difficult equation and give you an idea how the equation was solved. (Which is great for study.)
In August 2010 its rank was 3,883 at Alexa.com. But now it's ranging from 4,000 - 7,000 depending on which country (or worldwide) ranking you look at. I think this is because people don't know about it.
Probably because if you google search engine it's on the second page and, come on, who ever makes it to the second page?
I do!
I don't have to click on pages. I have an add-on that loads the next page while I am on it. So it's like one really LONG page. It's really helpful in the forums here. I can see all posts on one page.
i found it mid-to-late last year, i kinda forgot about it over last summer, and remembered it early February, and since ive been trying to find something it doesnt know, but as i am 13, this may take a while.....
