With Google's Knowledge Graph, Wikipedia's Wikidata, and Wolfram|Alpha's database (that supports Siri), the efforts to make the world understandable to machines are gradually fulfilling another function: making information on entities and...
Wolfram|Alpha's Handwritten Knowledge Engine Introducing Wolfram|Alpha's Handwritten Knowledge Engine – the only Handwritten Knowledge Engine that has a team of real humans ready to transcribe and illustrate your queries.
A 2004 patent application by Google suggested they planned on assigning greater relevance to links in such positions and I wrote a little more about personalized PageRank in “Is Google Afraid of the Big Bad Wolfram?
If you haven't noticed them already, Google really want you to notice their freebase results which makes the search engine a bit more like Wolfram Alpha and Siri. There is more Halloween fun to be had on Google aside from the Haunted House doodle.
That came from its attempts to clean up the link graph of spammy links to enable the search giant to compete in semantic search, with the likes of Wolfram|Alpha and Apple. The outcome will be a continuation of this current process until Google is...
Siri and Wolfram Alpha are the closest things we currently have to the idealized concept of search agents currently, however 'apps' are truly the forerunners of this concept - when Steve Jobs famously said, "When you look at ads on a phone, it's...
This has been brought into stark contrast by the launch of Siri - a search concierge powered by the aforementioned Wolfram|Alpha search computational knowledge engine. Afraid that its crown as king of search will be stolen by a new breed of voice...
Various life forms or objects (block patterns) can appear, according to Wolfram Mathworld: block, tub, boat, snake, ship, aircraft carrier, beehive, barge, Python, long boat, easter, fishhook, and loaf:
This search gives you a result using Wolfram|Alpha’s closest interpretation of the search. Wolfram|Alpha Wolfram|Alpha works by using its vast store of expert-level knowledge and algorithms to automatically answer questions, do analysis, and...
Healthline and Wolfram|Alpha Expand Health and Treatment Research Tools Google is adding a new health search results feature. Whenever you search for a symptom or multiple symptoms of an illness, Google will show you a list of possibly related...
This formula will also work on Wolfram|Alpha. Google’s animated short features the age old love story: a boy trying to impress a girl. It is set to "Cold, Cold Heart,” written by the legendary Hank Williams and performed by iconic American pop/jazz...
Super Bowl Stat Time: Wolfram|Alpha Offers Stats Guide for Football Junkies But it was neither the Giants nor Patriots that people were searching for most last night on Google during the game. It was Madonna.
Super Bowl Stat Time: Wolfram|Alpha Offers Stats Guide for Football Junkies In fact, there are no important tips, best practices, or suggested strategies in the 73-page Creator Playbook about advertising on YouTube at all, let alone creating the...
If you want Super Bowl stats, the self-described computational knowledge engine Wolfram|Alpha is the place to break down all the key Super Bowl 46 numbers before the New England Patriots and New York Giants game kicks off tomorrow night.
The author then veers off into listing Google alternatives Bing, DuckDuckGo, Blekko, and Wolfram|Alpha. Instead of having horrible, evil products like Gmail, Google’s search engine, Google Docs, or Google’s Chrome browser, Microsoft saves us with...
The real fun in Wolfram Alpha is just how much you can ask it, and in discovering how you formulate queries for this type fo search engine. If you have ever played with the "super one-box" Wolfram Alpha, you will know that the computational engine...
Beyond simply allowing access to a searchable database (like Google and other standard search does) or allowing simple questions and answers (like Wolfram Alpha and other "answer engines" do), AskAMEE allows users to dive in with search and get...
Healthline and Wolfram Alpha have both announced new features specifically related to comsumer health information. Healthline now offers a social search feature that taps into crowd sourced information on drug experiences while Wolfram Alpha taps...
Hot on the heels of the popularity around Siri Easter Eggs, Google looks like it is taking a leaf out of Wolfram Alpha's book and bringing some personality quirks to the search engine. Type the phrase "do a barrel roll" (without quotes) into the...
Wolfram Alpha Easter Eggs If you don't know what Facebook Timeline is, this remix of an episode of Mad Men, has Don Draper doing a much better job of announcing the new product than Mark Zuckerburg. Either way, Facebook's new profile design is very...
