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May 19, 2009 08:22

WOLFRAMALPHA

WolframAlpha is a revolutionary new search engine that computes answers rather than pointing to websites.  The site was officially launched yesterday amid heated talk that it could challenge the might of Google.  The service can compute the distance between two cities, the population of a country, county or city at a specific date and ( Read more... )

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slumberjack May 19 2009, 14:14:42 UTC
I played around with it a bit. Kind of impressive... If they want to compete with Google though, I think some things need to be "dumbed down." (I was looking at Astronomy info, so it might not all be so abbreviation-ridden.) It's a really clever app.

The name is funny. Sounds like the handle of someone I'd be interested in talking to online.

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