Wolfram Alpha is live!!

[Yamaraj]

Wolfram|Alpha (also written WolframAlpha and Wolfram Alpha) is an answer-engine developed by Wolfram Research. It is an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data, rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer as a search engine may do.[3] It was announced in March 2009 by British mogul Stephen Wolfram, and was released to the public on May 15, 2009.

Wolfram|Alpha is officially launched!

Wolfram|Alpha went live in test mode at 8:48pm CST on Friday. Our teams worked intensely through the weekend to complete load testing, fix bugs, and begin to address the feedback you have provided—over 22,000 feedback messages. During testing, Wolfram|Alpha processed nearly 23 million queries; by our estimates, approximately 3 out of 4 gave satisfactory results.

By late Sunday night, we were able to test all compute clusters at full capacity.

Wolfram|Alpha

No one noticed it here? :S I kept waiting for others to post the news.

Discuss it now!! Best thing since Google.

 

[renegade]

Interesting.. it will take some time getting used to though. To explore how you can use it productively. For instance a very very good dictionary

Till then.. human, 5ft 9in, 154lb - Wolfram|Alpha

EDIT - It is overwhelming :O

 

[stalker]

bah.. they have messed up maps of the indian subcontinent

 

[Yamaraj]

Wolfram|Alpha Examples for more.

 

[gforce]

Love the PDF feature. Now that's nifty.

 

[Yamaraj]

You can just type-in your question and get the answer within seconds without having to sift through pages and pages of results as in case of other search engines.

For example, rupees in one us dollar - Wolfram|Alpha, or

http://www82.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=factorial+of+234

 

[Aces170]

Woah... some amazing stuff in finance

 

[manu1991]

The comparison feature is great , just enter two or more keywords for any particular type and it ciom[pares them automtically