PC: WA appears to me to be a good addition to the arsenal of search engines,
with its strengths (math-dependent stuff) and weaknesses. I tried "what is
> the distance between Katmandu and Bangalore" and found the precise answer
> plus lots of relevant data as a result. Very good at some things. Just
> don't ask it questions about unusual things or matters of judgment. (01)
Right to the point, Patrick.
Below what it was predicted in the recent thread:
[According to SW, the four pillars of his oncoming web service are:" a
massive amount of data, that his company has collected from various sources;
a computational engine built on
top of Mathematica...; a system for understanding queries; and technology to
display results in interesting ways.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/wolfram-alpha-veil-lifted/
Again, its not a web search engine, but a QAS dealing with statistics and
all sort of statistical relations between two or more variables, such as
population growth rate, amount of junk food consumed, and birth rate or
mortality rate, as much as a new Google data-centric service got from the
Trendanalizer Co. Mostly expect all sort of charts visualizing binary or
ternary relations, involving distances, prices, locations, populations,
dates, weather data, and many other statistics and quantitative data. The
both services are syntactic systems differing only in degree and scale, and
neither will bother if such correlations have any causal meanings. In fact,
we need a radically new kind of web search, common ontology-driven semantic
search engine, the ontological foundations of which we are here looking
for.] (02)
Bottom line:
This kind of retrieval systems is a maximum what can give us any syntactic
search engine (Google) or question answering machine neglecting ontology and
semantics, so unable to process the meanings of web data and content. (03)
Azamat Abdoullaev (04)
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> WA appears to me to be a good addition to the arsenal of search engines,
> with its strengths (math-dependent stuff) and weaknesses. I tried "what
> is
> the distance between Katmandu and Bangalore" and found the precise answer
> plus lots of relevant data as a result. Very good at some things. Just
> don't ask it questions about unusual things or matters of judgment.
>
> Pat
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>> Jon,
>>
>> That is the most frequent answer you get from it:
>>
>> > "Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input."
>>
>> That is why it is an alpha-level system.
>>
>> John
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