Comments on: Wolfram Alpha and Beta PR

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Pandia Search Engine News Wrap-up May 16 | rapid-DEV.net — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:50:22 +0000

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By: Kenton Sallee

Kenton Sallee — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:53:08 +0000

I’m watching this closely from afar (…) but it seems that WA is jumping the gun as far as “release” goes. I can’t find a beta, and his/their main websites smell like Public Relations BS. I love the idea, but worried we’re getting a lemon. Getting a computer to learn to say “mommy” to me is amazing, though…so I might be coming from the wrong direction.

By: Stephen E. Arnold

Stephen E. Arnold — Fri, 15 May 2009 05:18:15 +0000

Govind Kapra’

How can I be unfair to a demo?

Stephen Arnold, May 15, 2009

By: Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:20:20 +0000

I think your write up is balanced: there are HUGE hurdles for WA to cross, even if it had a better service. Just building the infrastructure for a highly-available search service is an extremely expensive undertaking, especially without a secured revenue stream. The press always wants to write a story about a Google-killer without having a clear understanding of the complexities that would entail. I wish Wolfram | Alpha the best and I think they've been making some smart moves but it's just going to be a technology demo, not a finished product. Nonetheless, I can't wait to play with it =)

By: Govind Kabra

Govind Kabra — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:40:54 +0000

I dont think your evaluation of Alpha is fair.

Although your reasonings of why it cant be google killer seem alright, you seem to discount for the fact that it is a new kind of search—Computation on massive amounts of data.

At this point, Alpha seems limited to carefully curated datasets. Perhaps, some innovation in creating new datasets by understanding the structure of Web pages would make it super pervasive.