Wolfram Alpha search is online

[The Straight Story]

http://www.wolframalpha.com/index.html

Making the world's knowledge computable

Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer. Based on a new kind of knowledge-based computing...

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. Oh, that's funny!

I typed in a search item, and got the message: "I'm sorry, Dave, but............."

It can't do it right now, having exceeded something I don't understand.

Thanks for this - I'll try it later...............

[The Straight Story]

2. Try typing in name YourFirstName or last name (nt)

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. Strange ..........

I typed in three well-known names. It recognized one of them.

Not an auspicious beginning, but I'm sure it'll get better. ......................

[The Straight Story]

5. I tried Ohio Florida

Brought some comparison data for the two states. Let me know if you hit anything really cool :)

[Mike 03]

4. I fiddled with it this morning, but just for a few minutes, mostly asking questions

about rates and incidence of disease in one country vs another, and found the results fascinating.

I also asked about one stock or corporation's health vs the health of another.

I also entered my date of birth to see what popped up.

When I have time it will be fun to get into this in more depth, but it truly fascinates me, and so does Wolfram.

I know not everybody here appreciates the guy, but I am quite fascinated, although also quite critical, of his "New Kind of Science" work.

ON EDIT:

One amusing thing. When I punched in a question about cancer, what I got back was a map of the zodiac star symbols of "Cancer."

[alfredo]

6. A cubit is 18 inches

[Tangerine LaBamba]

7. Thanks, God ........

I was wondering............

[alfredo]

8. Input AAPL MSFT

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=AAPL+MSFT

Lexington Ky has 60,000 less people than Cincinnati.

Won't have anything to do with "Tastes Great, Less filling."

[Tangerine LaBamba]

9. I love Firefox -

I just added Wolfram Alpha to my available search engines. It was so simple, even a compute subliterate such as I was able to do it - just go here, and scroll down: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=wolfram&cat=all

[BlooInBloo]

10. Pretty cool after a brief look. Doesn't have the entire NYSE, though.

[TahitiNut]

11. "Life, the Universe, and everything?"

Input interpretation:
answer to life, the universe, and everything
Result:
42
(according to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

:rofl:

[The Straight Story]

12. rofl - I just tried it as well

Well, now my life is complete.