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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
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EtherealDeath
United States8366 Posts
On April 11 2009 08:59 CharlieMurphy wrote: Google has not only taken over the internet search market it has infiltrated the english language as a verb. Even if you aren't using google one can always be sure to say "I'm googling it" , or "just google it" . You can't overtake that. I dunno, see what happened to IE after it had 95% of the world browser share for so long, granted the absolute volume was not as large. But in general, even the biggest companies and brands have shown through time that they can be defeated.. | ||
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Nytefish
United Kingdom4282 Posts
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illu
Canada2531 Posts
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Mooga
United States575 Posts
On April 11 2009 08:44 EtherealDeath wrote: Sure it can. Even if you want to force every query into a question, you can always type "Best website for Starcraft Programing?", or "Best website from which I can learn Prolog and its related mathematical structures?", to which Woflram Alpha's knowledge base and thus (hopefully) accuracy should grow as it experiences more sites. Exactly! Almost anything you could ever want to know can be phrased into a question. I guess the question is if it will work for all questions. For example, if you wanted to search for a random string like "lolcats monorail," then you could simply ask: "Which websites contain are most relevant to the words 'lolcats' and 'monorail' ?" This would either force Wolfram Alpha to act like google, or it might completely misinterpret the question by looking for a factual answer and give you the average number of cats located in subway stations or something. From what I know about the website, even if there isn't a factual answer to that question, it will still bring up results relating to your inquires. That implies that it will at least act like google to a certain extent. | ||
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Amnesty
United States2054 Posts
On April 10 2009 14:02 iSCOUT4u wrote: I hope google dies...im really getting tired of hearing "google it" i hate that ppl go with whatever is newer...even if it isnt better. This thing seems like an awesome tool though  Yah, "wolfram alpha it" is so much better. | ||
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alx
Sweden33 Posts
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Jayme
United States5866 Posts
On April 11 2009 09:01 EtherealDeath wrote: I dunno, see what happened to IE after it had 95% of the world browser share for so long, granted the absolute volume was not as large. But in general, even the biggest companies and brands have shown through time that they can be defeated.. IE has a lot of shall we say... glaring issues that allowed another company to develop something better. Google is fairly comprehensive and unlike IE it doesn't suck. | ||
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0xDEADBEEF
Germany1235 Posts
I've also read once that they put *a lot* of thought and research into their site layout respectively how fast and easy the user can find what he needs. The layout of the search result page is pretty much perfect. | ||
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ocoini
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fight_or_flight
United States3988 Posts
I later got an email from someone at Wolfram telling me that we'd have a lot more to discuss if it they could talk. Well it turns out thats the approximate time they started this project. | ||
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Ronald_McD
Canada807 Posts
Except, it could definitely use a catchier name lol. | ||
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jodogohoo
Canada2533 Posts
On April 12 2009 16:47 fight_or_flight wrote: You know whats really crazy? Two years ago I sent an email to both Google and Wolfram Research telling them that you should be able to enter mathematica commands into the google search bar. My argument is that it would be good for everyone for a number of reasons which I laid out. I later got an email from someone at Wolfram telling me that we'd have a lot more to discuss if it they could talk. Well it turns out thats the approximate time they started this project. if wolfram kills google, im holding you responsible. | ||
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HeavOnEarth
United States7087 Posts
On April 10 2009 15:13 shavingcream66 wrote: What is the meaning of life? 404 error | ||
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TimeShifter
Singapore235 Posts
On April 12 2009 16:47 fight_or_flight wrote: You know whats really crazy? Two years ago I sent an email to both Google and Wolfram Research telling them that you should be able to enter mathematica commands into the google search bar. My argument is that it would be good for everyone for a number of reasons which I laid out. I later got an email from someone at Wolfram telling me that we'd have a lot more to discuss if it they could talk. Well it turns out thats the approximate time they started this project. lol win post | ||
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29 fps
United States5725 Posts
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Manit0u
Poland17850 Posts
![[image loading]](http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/5103/scrnt.png) Sorry, it's hard to beat fully customizable and very useful homepage like that. Google ain't gonna die anytime soon. | ||
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rredtooth
5464 Posts
On April 12 2009 20:49 Manit0u wrote: Sorry, it's hard to beat fully customizable and very useful homepage like that. Google ain't gonna die anytime soon. but you could just as easily have all of those items avaliable on your desktop without using google. google isn't going to die anytime soon but not for this reason. also, igoogle sucks. use the firefox keyword feature ("g Teamliquid" to google TL, "w Ongamenet" to wiki Ongamenet, etc etc). Haven't tried chrome yet. Tried Sketchup though. That thing was amusing. | ||
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Manit0u
Poland17850 Posts
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Luddite
United States2315 Posts
On April 11 2009 08:59 CharlieMurphy wrote: Google has not only taken over the internet search market it has infiltrated the english language as a verb. Even if you aren't using google one can always be sure to say "I'm googling it" , or "just google it" . You can't overtake that. Actually, there might be a way. The "Kleenex" brand of tissue has become so popular that people now say Kleenex instead of tissue. It got to the point that a judge ruled that Kleenex is now no longer a protected trademark, but in the common domain. So at some point, Google might have to change their name to something else. | ||
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