WolframAlpha!!waste of time....

WolframAlpha(www.wolframalpha.com)has started its operation...There was a hype before its release that it is going to beat google,wikipedia and others...even me and my friend were talking about it before its release and he was also of the same view that the bad times for other search engines will be started by the release of WolframAlpha, but i didn't agreed with him and i said to him lets see what it will do...now as it has been launched so i tried it with differnt searches and unfortunately results are very poor..i guess not upto anyone's expectations as we all were expecting alot....i had searched it with random questions and sometimes it failed to produce results and sometimes it produced results that even a 1st grade student would know better than this computational knowledge engine :( for example i typed in "color of water" and after about 20 seconds it showed no results...then i typed "Richard Nixon" it gave me information that i am not looking for,nowhere in the result it was written that he was the 37th president of the USA...only the thing that is good in it is its mathematical calculations...it only does good calculation and gives correct results...why not buy a calculator?i found WolframAlpha as irrelevant and not upto the standards,although it is a good concept but they failed to deliver....google and wikipedia are far more better than WolframAlpha in every manner..so why not go to google or wikipedia and get lots and lots of information instead of getting two lines of result which is irrelevant and useless.it is only a waste of time to use WolframAlpha...lets hope google will come up with good search techniques as they have announced that they are going to add different search techniques, which will be very useful.

2 comments:

jimpurdy1943@yahoo.com said...

Well, to be fair, it is a "knowledge engine," not a search engine.

I had a conversation with WolframAlpha, which I posted on my blog, spooframalpha.blogspot.com .

And, yes, he/she/it CAN compare apples and oranges.

I'll get serious later.

hassan naeem said...

i also mentioned that it is a computational knowledge engine..and it is not giving any useful knowledge..u can get better and relevant knowledge with wikipedia rather than this so called computational knowledge engine....

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