Also, about the thread title, I originally made this post on Gawker's article entitled: "The Humans Who Will Kill the Google Machine." So naturally I picked a similar title for my thread as a lead-in to the article.

Cambium

United States16368 Posts

May 15 2009 18:37 GMT

#108

5 hours and 20 minutes left

Archaic

United States4024 Posts

May 15 2009 18:42 GMT

#109

On May 16 2009 03:37 Cambium wrote:
5 hours and 20 minutes left

Nice bump, haha. I wonder what will happen... Will the intertubes burst?

aznmathfreak

United States148 Posts

May 15 2009 18:49 GMT

#110

I've had this page bookmarked since about a month ago, really eager to give it a try once it's up. I'll keep an unbiased mindset until I've given it a try. From those videos though, it seems that it might be easier to use for people without a computer background, since it eliminates the need for general knowledge of computer logic. You don't have to be as specific about your keyword search and it organizes the information better. However, I look forward to seeing how powerful the search results can be when the user is rather ambiguous and unclear about what he/she wants.

MasterReY

Germany2708 Posts

May 15 2009 18:57 GMT

#111

On April 10 2009 17:23 Boblion wrote:
Google wil just buy this guy if his algo is better.
lol

qft
lol

caelym

United States6429 Posts

May 15 2009 21:37 GMT

#112

2.5 more hours. I'm really impressed by all the demos (here's another: http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html). This is like an engineering student's wet dream.

Mooga

United States575 Posts

May 15 2009 22:21 GMT

#113

There's going to be a live webcast beginning at 8pm EST tonight.

I hope it lives up to its hype, but this is launch day ... and I've seen some terrible launch days for stuff like this. Anyway, I'll be pleasantly surprised if everything runs smoothly and on time. Even if my searches come up with initially useless results, I'll still give it a chance because search engines tend to need a lot of refinement - and that means it can improve over time.

Cambium

United States16368 Posts

May 16 2009 00:24 GMT

#114

site is down lol, too much traffic

doghunter

United States23 Posts

May 16 2009 00:34 GMT

#115

my friend showed me it with his preview access and this thing is awesome, can't wait

Cambium

United States16368 Posts

May 16 2009 00:55 GMT

#116

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population of tokyo&asynchronous=false&equal=Submit

Cambium

United States16368 Posts

May 16 2009 00:55 GMT

#117

spent 10 minutes playing with it, it's really not that good.

thopol

Japan4560 Posts

May 16 2009 00:59 GMT

#118

This thread should be renamed. The hype was so big, but it's really nothing like a google killer. Not the same idea at all.

With my initial messing around it's hard to see whether it will be an anything killer. I wonder if it will get better over time.

Cambium

United States16368 Posts

May 16 2009 01:05 GMT

#119

The idea is very different from google. In order to use google, you need to break up your question into relevant keywords (some people have alot of trouble doing this); wolfram saves you this step.

This is supposed to be more natural and therefore appealing to more people.