Mon May 04, 2009 2:03 pm Reply with quote
WHAT HE SAID!! if you know how to wtite metta tags you will know that this is how search engines work already.
Over Hype?
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mattvot wrote:
Sunday, 3 May 2009 at 12:38 am (UTC)
Where I think Wolfram Alpha is a good idea, how can it be deemed the biggest internet revolution for a generation even before its launch!
So you can ask a computer a question, so what. You get the same answers as a search engine, but maybe a little faster. The answers are still only as reliable as the pages indexed by Wolfram. I don't understand why it would be a revolution.
For example, FaceBook and Social Networking sites are considered a revolution of the internet because t bringing the ability of quickly communicating with the masses relatively easy and free. But Alpha is just similar to a site like Wikipedia, where it collects information from it users, but it displays it in a friendly short answer form.
I could see a service like Alpha being integrated with Google as an added bonus, like the same way you would do a calculation with Google. But I don't think that the site as a whole will expand as expected in real life. People are just too busy and inorent to try something new, when something like Google provided many services under one roof
