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    Wolfram Alpha Ends Up Where It Belongs: Inside Another Search Engine

    Google Search Is About to Get a Lot Better

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    11/11/09

    In reply to Wolfram Alpha Ends Up Where It Belongs: Inside Another Search Engine
    Did you say Bing? #wolframalphabing
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    Image of ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD
    11/11/09

    In reply to Wolfram Alpha Ends Up Where It Belongs: Inside Another Search Engine
    Know what I want from Microsoft? An original idea. It seems like the more time goes on, the more companies like Apple and Google come out with neat products like iPods and Microsoft just kinda says
    "Wow, that's neat. Let's steal the idea, we'll call it zune".
    "Google's making money? Hey we should start a search engine"
    "OS 2, huh? Looks neat, we'll call it Windows" #wolframalphabing
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/11/09

    @ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD: Brush up on your history a little. MS was in the search engine game before Google ever existed. (sources: [searchenginewatch.com] [en.wikipedia.org] [en.wikipedia.org] ). In fact, there were at least 16 other search engines that predated Google ( [en.wikipedia.org] ). So, one could argue that Google stole the idea from MS, amongst others following your logic.

    The first MP3 player was made by Eiger Labs and was called the MPMan (source: [reviews.cnet.com] [en.wikipedia.org] [boingboing.net] ). In fact, the market had several different MP3 players before iPod came along. Apple rarely innovates technology, they tend to wait and synthesize the best facets of different products together into one user friendly and attractive device and it is something they do very well.

    OS2 was co-developed by Microsoft and IBM ([en.wikipedia.org] ) and was built around MS-DOS, the DOS ( [en.wikipedia.org] ) system created by Gates and Microsoft. Granted, MS-DOS is preceded by Apple DOS by a year ( [en.wikipedia.org] ). The independent Windows OS was antecedent to Apple's OS, but the IBM/MS one preceded it.

    I could go on and on, but don't feel like it. The thing is, tech companies constantly "steal" from one another because they see what customers like or what are good ideas and attempt to utilize them. Call it stealing or failure to innovate if you want, but you'd be flat out wrong. Go troll somewhere else about MS. Do a little research before opening your mouth about something that you don't know about. #wolframalphabing
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    Image of tucker tucker
    11/11/09

    In reply to Wolfram Alpha Ends Up Where It Belongs: Inside Another Search Engine
    I use Bing. Oh wait. No I don't. #wolframalphabing
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/11/09

    @fucker: Who's got two thumbs and doesn't care? This guy. #wolframalphabing
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    Image of The guy who loves those Big-Ass-Tables The guy who loves those Big-Ass-Tables
    11/11/09

    @Nathan Obbards: I get it... you purposely misspelled his name.... hahaha #wolframalphabing
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/11/09

    @The guy who loves those Big-Ass-Tables: Who, me? I would never do something subtle and easy like that. #wolframalphabing
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    11/11/09

    @Nathan Obbards: Well Played Sir... #wolframalphabing
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    Image of jepzilla jepzilla
    11/11/09

    In reply to Wolfram Alpha Ends Up Where It Belongs: Inside Another Search Engine
    Personally, I think Wolfram Alpha is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Perhaps even greater.

    The ability to quickly whip up a query to answer some bizarre random question gives me a feeling of Godlike omniscience. It's almost like something out of Star Trek, where the computer was always solving complex problems for the crew and then I'd be watching this on TV wondering why they bothered with the useless meatbags at all, when the computer was obviously the smartest one there.

    But still, I have to wonder... does anybody other than me really use it? #wolframalphabing
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    11/11/09

    @jepzilla: I use wolfram alpha a lot! I'm an engineering student, so I am commonly doing my hw in front of wolfram alpha.
    And I love having it come up with quick answers to other things. And it's a great tool to look at stocks and economic trends.
    It is honestly one of the greatest things on the internet and I think more people use it than you are aware - I am constantly catching classmates on it. #wolframalphabing
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/11/09

    In reply to Wolfram Alpha Ends Up Where It Belongs: Inside Another Search Engine
    Never have I been more tempted to make a "yo dawg..." joke. #wolframalphabing
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    Image of PregoNation PregoNation
    11/11/09

    @Nathan Obbards: omg. As in "Yo dawg...I like you...Yo Dawg...I like you too man. Let's get married" #wolframalphabing
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11/11/09

    @PregoNation: More like, "yo dawg I heard you like search engines, so we put a search engine in your search engine so you could Bing while you Google" #wolframalphabing
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    11/12/09

    @Nathan Obbards: Hahaha! Equally hilarious. #wolframalphabing
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    Image of Cogito Ergo Bibo Cogito Ergo Bibo
    11/10/09

    In reply to Google Search Is About to Get a Lot Better
    I may be the only dinosaur around running Boolean searches on Google, but I find that I nearly always get exactly what I want doing that. Boolean won't hunt down related terms, sure, but 99% of the time I don't need that. So to step forward, I stepped backwards. Boolean still rules. #googlecaffeine
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    Image of KeyserSoze KeyserSoze
    11/10/09

    @Cogito Ergo Bibo: Chicken Boolean or Beef Boolean? #googlecaffeine
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    11/10/09

    @beekerstudios: you are inane and stupid: No, I know exactly what you mean. Boolean doesn't give you "sorta like this, but not exactly that." It's a definite limitation.

    @KeyserSoze: Mmm. Chicken-y Boolean goodness. Just like mom used to make! #googlecaffeine
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    11/10/09

    @Cogito Ergo Bibo: For a proper boolean chicken soup you need: broth AND chicken AND carrots AND veggies AND noodles.. #googlecaffeine
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    11/10/09

    In reply to Google Search Is About to Get a Lot Better
    It's gonna get better because they're gonna honor Rupert Murdoch's wishes and delist the NewsCorp empire? #googlecaffeine
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    Image of moo083 moo083
    11/10/09

    @AmishJohn: He never said that they were trying to get delisted. He said that he wanted to make NewsCorp unsearchable. There's a big difference there. #googlecaffeine
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    11/10/09

    @moo083: Actually, Uncle Rupie wants to get paid. As far as I'm concerned, he can get bent. Go to a NewsCorp site, and the robots.txt specifically allows Google's indexing, and even points to the sitemap. If he didn't want to be searchable, he shouldn't allow searching. He just wants Google to pay for regurgitating NewsCorps already regurgitated stories. #googlecaffeine
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    11/10/09

    In reply to Google Search Is About to Get a Lot Better
    The question is, if Google became twice as effective, would we notice? It already gives me exactly what I want 99.5% of the time. (Like your mom, hey-yo!) #googlecaffeine
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    11/10/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: At half the cost.

    Like your wife. #googlecaffeine
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    Image of Thorax707 Thorax707
    11/10/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: With only a small side order of spam... like your mom. OH! #googlecaffeine
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    11/10/09

    @Thorax707: But not as prone to chafing.

    Like your sister. #googlecaffeine
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    11/10/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Or drooling.

    Like your dog.

    Waitaminute. #googlecaffeine
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    11/10/09

    In reply to Google Search Is About to Get a Lot Better
    But how does it stack up against Bing?
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    Image of SuperTuna SuperTuna
    11/10/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Chanandler Bong! #googlecaffeine
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    11/10/09

    @SuperTuna: Ms. Chanandler Bong #googlecaffeine
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    11/10/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Bing is the decision engine, it decides what results you should read. It doesn't matter how efficient its search engine is. You must read whatever it tells you.
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    OMG! Ponies! promoted this comment Edited by PurpleMonkeyDishwasher: at 11/10/09 12:17 PM PurpleMonkeyDishwasher: was starred PurpleMonkeyDishwasher: was unstarred
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    @PurpleMonkeyDishwasher: : So what yer sayin' is that Bing is the decider. #googlecaffeine
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/10/09

    In reply to Google Search Is About to Get a Lot Better
    This will be like kicking Yahoo! in the head before they can get footing, because their search hit results are already sub par by comparison. #googlecaffeine
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    11/10/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: who's Yahoo!? #googlecaffeine
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    OMG! Ponies! promoted this comment RedEyeNinja was starred RedEyeNinja was unstarred
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    11/10/09

    @RedEyeNinja: It's a chocolate drink not unlike chocolate milk. #googlecaffeine
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    11/10/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: More Ovaltine please! #googlecaffeine
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    11/10/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Shuddup and drink your cocoa-flavored whey juice. #googlecaffeine
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    11/10/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: I'm Googling my Yahoo! right now... #googlecaffeine
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    11/11/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: eeeeewwww Yoohoo.... chocolate water.... eeeeewww

    edit: spoken in a Stewie Griffin voice
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    10/19/09

    In reply to WolframAlpha iPhone App Is a $50 Super Calculator
    OMFG...
    I like WolframAlpha, which puts me in a minority among most people who have never heard of it... but there's no way I'd pay $50 for a mobile version of a website I can access with Safari anyway, that I can think of a use for once every couple of months, but could also be served as well by Google! #wolframalpha
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    Image of Adam Adam
    10/19/09

    In reply to WolframAlpha iPhone App Is a $50 Super Calculator
    I've never had the website give me any data that was at all useful, why would I pay for that? #wolframalpha
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    Xeno promoted this comment Adam was starred Adam was unstarred
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    10/19/09

    @Adam: You've never bothered to ask it anything that was useful to you then. #wolframalpha
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    10/19/09

    @Xeno: Well, I can't remember everything I've asked it, but usually it's easy calculations I just don't feel like figuring out. For example, "what is the mass of 250 u.s. dime coins" is a very simple question to piece apart. But all I get is "Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure how to compute an answer from your input." I could ask it "mass of a u.s. dime coin" and multiply it by 250, but isn't the entire point of Wolfram Alpha that I don't need to do that? I've never had it do anything Google couldn't do better. Also, it's much slower. #wolframalpha
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    10/19/09

    @Adam: Ahh, interesting that that didn't work. I asked it 1 can tuna + 2 slices bread + 1 tsp mayo and gave all the nutritional information of a tuna fish sandwich though. Trending say several stocks works well. Or comparing sports statistics. It's certainly not perfect but can do some great things. #wolframalpha
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    Image of puhsitch puhsitch
    10/18/09

    In reply to WolframAlpha iPhone App Is a $50 Super Calculator
    ...I don't think that Wolfram is actually looking to make money through the App Store. You know what's really going on here?

    Blog reader/Twitterererer: "What kind of crazy company would charge $50 for this?? They must really think they're something special. I don't know who Wolfram is, but I'm gonna go the web site and use their fancy service for FREE just to stick it to 'em!"

    No one would be talking if the app were $1.99 (and no one would be buying it since it's not free). We all know that those guys aren't dumb -- and they know that it's the outliers that get the most attention. #wolframalpha
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    10/19/09

    @puhsitch:

    yep - this is their 'balloon boy' so to speak #wolframalpha
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    Image of fleebailey33 fleebailey33
    10/18/09

    In reply to WolframAlpha iPhone App Is a $50 Super Calculator
    they have given out access to there API, i give it a week before someone makes one thats not official for free/cheap #wolframalpha
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    Image of Jamez Jamez
    10/18/09

    In reply to WolframAlpha iPhone App Is a $50 Super Calculator
    Considering it can be easily accessed via the iPhone's Safari browser, this app is just dumb. Sorry Wolfram Alpha team, either remove the mobile version of your site or make the app free (or at least better than the browser search engine and cheaper). Otherwise, you just make yourselves look stupid...which is the opposite of what your search engine promotes. #wolframalpha
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