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May 19
2009

Mike Loukides

Wolfram Alpha a Google Killer? Not... Supposed... To... Be

by Mike Loukides@mikeloukidescomments: 11

I'm getting tired of reading about whether Alpha is a Google-killer. I've seen Stephen Wolfram's presentations a couple of times; he's quite careful to say that it isn't. There's a fundamental difference that many people out there are just missing. Google is a search engine. Alpha looks like a search engine, but it isn't; it's all about curated data, and the analysis of that data.

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tags: analysis, curated data, data, mathematica, wolfram alphacomments: 11
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