mashable.com — Here?s another thing that?ll make Wolfram Alpha more fun than Google (Google reviews): updates. When some aspect of Google?s search gets updated, we don?t necessarily notice it, and it?s not usually easy to make an ordered list of the exact updates that happened.
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killaspikeJun 9, 2009
They do not serve the same purpose at all.Apples and Oranges.
thexuuJun 9, 2009
<a class="user" href="http://www27.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=y%3Dmx%2Fc%2Bc+solve+for+c">http://www27.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=y%3Dmx%2Fc% ...</a>
Closed AccountJun 9, 2009
Well I think part of it is that a large amount of the kinds of data it produces can't be easily represented with plain text. What I mean is things like graphs of equations, molecular structures, etc. Personally, my gripe is that you can't interact with the images. I loaded up the structure for chlorophyll a, and it's a pretty big goddamn molecule, so it would've been handy to have a zoom function or something. Also would've been handy to be able to look at things like bond energies, like you can for simpler structures. Which incidentally brings me to one of my biggest gripes with it, which is that after a certain complexity threshold for certain kinds of inquiries, it just throws its hands in the air and says "f**k you!"
jgzmanJun 9, 2009
<a class="user" href="http://www.newstin.co.in/rel/in/en-010-012002818">http://www.newstin.co.in/rel/in/en-010-012002818</a>Wolfram Alpha is the next “Google Killer” according to a few journalists.
jgzmanJun 9, 2009
I used it for thermo homework when I had big messy equations I didn't want to work out longways.
theabsinthehareJun 9, 2009
"It's" works backwards from other possessive nouns. Without the apostrophe, it is possessive, but with it, it's a contraction for "It is". If "it is" doesn't fit in the sentence, then you want the one without the apostrophe. :]
7ajiJun 10, 2009
Now that's some good use of it!
christiandksdJun 10, 2009
yeah that is true, because the TI83 is a web-based calculator!