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Generic Cialis — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 04:55:41 -0000

Wow, Fantastic idea about that

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James Garvey — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:29:35 -0000

I really appreciate your help, it is very useful for me,you will get good grades!
You will be successful.

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Michael — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:24:18 -0000

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Vincent X — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:40:24 -0000

Its nice that someone has put everything into this.
I'm sure it will be better or a vast improvement that in the past search engines.
Its good for our future.
Keep on getting better.
I hope you get very close to what you/we are trying to achieve.
Good luck.
I cant wait till it's Launch in May 2009.

Re: Wolfram Alpha — it’s like plugging into an electronic brain

David Reiss — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:43:15 -0000

Readers interested in some thoughts on Wolfram Alpha will might find my blog on the subject interesting. It's at

http://www.alpha-tips.com/a...

Thanks!

--David (the blog's author...)

Re: Wolfram Alpha — it’s like plugging into an electronic brain

Gabriel Weinberg — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:35:29 -0000

Hey, also be sure to check out our new search engine, Duck Duck Go: http://www.duckduckgo.com/. More info about us (and why we're better/different) can be found at: http://www.duckduckgo.com/a....

We also have some semantic properties, e.g. ambigious keyword detection: http://www.duckduckgo.com/?..., as well as have zero-click info, e.g. http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Fu....

Take care,

Gabriel Weinberg
Founder & CEO, Duck Duck Go

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Twine_watcher — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:27:09 -0000

Maybe Nova Spivack should focus more on getting Twine's new nonsense ranking algorithm right before he hypes any Wolfram Alpha offering.

Twine's algorithm has people listed at #13 who've only posted 1 item and people who haven't actively used Twine in over six months in the Top 100 users.

Meanwhile, not a single user who HAS been posting thousands of items and is active has been included in the Top 100.

He's familiar with the dangers of hype. He claimed Twine has "explosive growth" and that proved to be mostly due to spambots whilst actual user engagement has dropped from a high of 16 minutes to 3 minutes.

Yup, he should work on fixing and delivering Twine's own smarts first before he goes and worries about how smart anyone else's solutions are.

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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:15:19 -0000

I too am skeptical. Obviously, I'll have to wait until it's released to see what it can do, but what I've read about Wolfram Alpha so far seems neither feasible nor useful. And there's another issue -- transparency. This appears to have been a "secret project", not something developed as an open-source project by a world-wide community. If such a thing is feasible and useful, why has it not been built by the smartest people in the world, open source hackers?

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Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:49:41 -0000

How many protons are in a Na22?

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erdevs — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:43:25 -0000

WolframAlpha is cataloging your criticisms and plotting its revenge...

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Bob Agnes — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:06:13 -0000

I hope it's as good or better than advertised. Why not wait until we've had a chance to play with it, before spouting all of the negative comment. Wolfram is a briliiant hard working thinker. We should encourage people like him to keep reaching for the next breakthrough for everyone's benefit.

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Bob Agnes — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:56:34 -0000

I did. It gave the answer for iron (FE) 56.

Bob A.

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Miramon — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:15:06 -0000

Going to have to wait till May, apparently, to see if it's any good. Wolfram has done good things, of course, but he also seems to have a very big head. IMO A New Kind of Science was about ten pounds too heavy for its actual content, and its pervasive lack of citation of living automata researchers -- who sometimes had already investigated claims said to be new and original in the book -- was extremely arrogant and annoying.

All prior "semantic search" that has supposedly been better than Google has not been, from PowerSet on down. I wouldn't get hopes too high for the Turing Test, cyberiban -- this thing will be lucky if it can even distinguish subject and object through NLP parsing (a principal PowerSet claim), much less figure out what the meaning of a complex query might be.

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John Wooten — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:03:34 -0000

Type your comment here.

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Adam Singer — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:59:54 -0000

Needs a better name.

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Michael — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:59:12 -0000

This is getting hyped wayyyy too much and much too quickly.

I can't help but be a tad bit skeptical.

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Mark — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:09:14 -0000

What do You think about www.coount.com - step by step online calculator?

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iphonedev.in — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:34:39 -0000

"Nor does it resort to natural language to return documents, like Powerset does. "

"You ask it questions in a bar that looks very much like Google’s search bar, but it uses natural language to understand your question or even abbreviated notation. "

Don't they contradict ?

Any system whether Google, Powerset, Cuil or Wolfram Alpha cannot afford to not use NLP. In fact all of them use it to a certain extent.

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hypermark — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:14:36 -0000

The API opens up some really interesting platform plays. Plug twitter into that and you have framing for all sorts of knowledge networking domains/spaces. I'm from Missouri on all of this stuff (game changers), but conceptually, a really fresh idea. Mechanical Turk, for real.

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cyberiban — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:16:22 -0000

This is the worlds first real contender for the Turing Test, if it delivers.

In some ways, it would be better than passing the turing test. If it can answer previously unanswered questions. Which appears to be a potential, it could actually be the first step toward furthering human understanding. A superior source of reference to other humans.

Maybe the singlarity gets just a little closer this May!

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Mrs. Smith — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:55:08 -0000

typo - will over s/b will offer

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galev — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:59:32 -0000

Right. Google is a search engine, WolframAlpha is not.

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MG Siegler — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:33:31 -0000

Ha.

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swag — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:12:24 -0000

And anyone else think that Wolfram's photo here is an homage to George Costanza's bio on the Vandelay Industries corporate Web site?

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swag — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:49:02 -0000

The problem with this talk is that only a small fraction of my Google use is to answer specific questions. Most of the time it's for finding other sites, references, open source software packages, procedural info such as a cooking recipe for preparing cornish hens or how to rip audio from a DVD, etc., what have you.

Meaning: the market for this is much, much smaller than Google.