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Add Wolfram Alpha to Google

Robert Hallock May 21, 2009 1:14 PM ET in Tech

Wolfram Alpha is an interesting experiment in compiling, crunching and displaying the world’s data. While many are obtusely selling it as a competitor to Google, it’s really nothing of the sort. While Google excels at returning pages, Wolfram Alpha narrowly excels at returning data. Did we mention that it errs on the painful side of erudition?

Therefore, to determine whether or not Wolfram Alpha would be useful to you as a user, we have designed the Wolfram Alpha Litmus Test found below:

Does this picture make sense to you? Y [ ] / N [ ]

Does this picture make sense to you? Y ( ) / N ( )

If you answered no, you’re joined by the global community of laypersons who aren’t statisticians or engineers. While us simple folk dink around in our Google garden, we can still have a crack at Wolfram Alpha’s ivory tower with a neat addon that embeds Alpha’s results straight into Google queries.

In the interim, you can amuse yourself with approachable Wolfram searches like this, this & this.

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1 Comment:

  1. MiracleManS
    Mediocrity Gets You Pears
    21 May '09, 1:27 pm

    I see this as an easier way to flop your way through CS math requirements

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