sphere of data

What is Wolframalpha?

Is it a mythical creature that is part wolf, part ram, part alpha? Does it devour on google’s when its hungry? When it eats aol’s for breakfast does it do what most of us do and just regurgitate it back out of our system? Is yahoo its desert or salad! Probably why I don’t like desert or salad for that matter.

Like you, when I first too heard of Wolframalpha, I could not help but be intrigued. So I started searching for video, my first choice as a visual learner, and there was none. Then moved onto blogs. For some reason almost every article repeated a bunch of filler that made me want to fall asleep. Nonetheless I really wanted to know what “the new google” was about. “TIP: make sure you are typing in wolframalpha as opposed to wolfmanalpha.” So as I search I came up with the idea to create my new blog around the hottest new term on the net “wolframalpha” if its the new google then with the name in my blog it will surely get read. The main theme was to introduce it in lamest terms and try to make sense of it all.

The best thing since google?

“Seems useful, but hardly a “Google killer.” It has an explicitly different purpose. A poor analogy is one that compares the internet to a library. Google is the librarian that helps you find books on the crowded shelves. Wolfram Alpha is the Encyclopedia Britannica that has a shelf to itself, except this one can perform calculations with its own statistics.” — Alex

Who created WolframAlpha?

Creator of Mathematica