Wolfram-Alpha Search Engine

[haven chuck]

Has anyone checked out this search engine yet? It is the most amazing thing i have seen on the computer (as far as programming) in a very long time. It is http://www58.wolframalpha.com/. Try the things on the side (all of them are amazing) and also watch the video, since it shows everything. For instance, you can give it height and weight and it will give you everything about that height and weight up to things like lung capacity. Or in the video it seacrhed for a comparison of something so specific like fish production, and it had tons of details about it. If you give it random letters in a genome, it can give you all the info about it. This website is amazimg. Even moreso, it came out at 4 PM today, so it is still in its earliest stages. Any thoughts about it?

[denmarksoccer]

I agree, it's awesome.

[erp]

Awesome, I found out about it last week and I was disappointed it wasn't open yet, so I'm going to try it out now. Looks great just looking at the first page. I read an article about how the government is on the verge of calling Google a monopoly. But now that Wolfram-Alpha's out, it could be a competitor, therefore saving Google from the government. Oh well, we'll see.

[blue cobra]

Man, with all of the computing and programming that must have gone into that, that's just amazing!

[binary010101]

It's sweet.

[erp]

Guess what it says when you type, "What is the meaning of life?"

[Phenylethylamine]

42?

[starpug]

Guess what it says when you type, "What is the meaning of life?"

42

[erp]

Yep.
Anyway, type in something like "ibuprofen vs. aspirin". It's really cool.

[kjhsscioly]

its really cool if you give it easy stuff.... however, when you type in the "big bang", it is clueless