Saturday, May 16, 2009

On-line research...

It's been in the news recently a lot, but only in geek-related news so you may not have come across it, but there's a new search engine.  It's called Wolfram Alpha.  It doesn't have a catchy name, but it's named after Stephen Wolfram.  I'm not sure who he was before.  Let's do a quick test.  Here's what you get when you search him in his own search engine. 

It's not for everything, but it works good as a subsitute for Wikipedia.  I've been playing with it all day and it seems good. It does have a lot of gaps, (my name doesn't have an answer,) but it does do some cool things. 

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