Wolfram Alpha

This is the coolest thing I have see in a long time. It is a search engine that has "assembled a wide variety of scientific knowledge and calculation, making it accessible in a concise and clear manner-- often using diagrams."

I know it sounds boring, but really, check out the intro video.
Wolfram Alpha introduction video

Thats strange... it loads fine for me.

Wolfram is the creator's last name.

It won't load for me either

Hmm... well here is a link to the main site, let me know if that works.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Mine seemed to load fine when tried it.
I have to say: MY GOD! That is bloody awesome! I would say it is the most useful thing that I have seen this year! Hell, in the past three years! It gives you soooo much information. Just incredible!

Yep it can do a whole bunch of stuf. It certainly isnt going to take over for google anytime soon, but it is stil something to look out for. Ive had some fun looking up the popularity of names and certain words on it and comparing them to others.

It was only released like a week ago and they say it will be able to do much more in the future... so im sure the knoledge gaps, and I have found some, will start to dimenish.

It's going to be awesome for my exams. I'll be able to revise so much stuff.
It would be sooo good if it could be downloaded onto Graphics Calculators. Then I'd be able to find out any answer I needed in a Maths test

Typho Raame wrote:

It's going to be awesome for my exams. I'll be able to revise so much stuff.
It would be sooo good if it could be downloaded onto Graphics Calculators. Then I'd be able to find out any answer I needed in a Maths test

Im not sure as I havent tried it... but if you have an IPhone it might work on it. If you have a lazy teacher you might be able to slip that by.

Well, good luck from me if you try that...

You're going to need it!

I'm going to try it soon. I hope I'll be able to download it, but I doubt it. Graphics Calculators are awesome, but I don't think they are THAT awesome, to be able to hold a program such as Wolfram Alpha.
Luckily for me, I have no conscience, so I don't feel bad about cheating on an exam while hard-working people suffer

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I am what I am
Someone has to be the bad guy.

Wolfram Alpha is more of a Question and Answer sort of thing, isn't it? It doesn't really give a huge area of information. Although it is very, very good, it doesn't really go into certain things.
Say, when I typed in "Knights Templar" it couldn't come up with anything. I guess that's probably because it is in it's early stages. Hopefully it'll be able to give me something when I next try it

Thats true, it isnt really so much a search engine as it is a question/answer machine. That makes it better in some places and weaker in others... like i would guess that historical information would be something that it doesn't know much about. That might improve in the future though.

I dont think it ever will, or was meant to replace google. They are so different that I think both have the opportunity to flourish.

Plus Google has been around for so long that the world's populace would be very upset if it was to be replaced by something else. It would be good if they could work co-operatively and not try to out-do each other with all sorts of updates and whatnot. Wolfram Alpha will be just as good as Google eventually, I think, but they are used for different purposes, so one can't take over the other.