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	<title>Comments on: Wolfram Alpha: It&#8217;s Not a Search Engine, It&#8217;s an Answer Engine</title>
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		<title>By: Eliza Strickland</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/05/11/wolfram-alpha-its-not-a-search-engine-its-an-answer-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-26992</link>
		<dc:creator>Eliza Strickland</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 11:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It launches this evening! They&#039;re doing a live webcast at 7 pm central time, so the world can watch them bring it online. After that, just go to www.wolframalpha.com and try it out.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It launches this evening! They&#8217;re doing a live webcast at 7 pm central time, so the world can watch them bring it online. After that, just go to <a href="http://www.wolframalpha.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.wolframalpha.com</a> and try it out.</p>
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		<title>By: Robert Layman</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robert Layman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 01:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi my name is Robert Layman
I’m interested in Wolfram Alpha “answer Engine”.
How do I find it?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi my name is Robert Layman<br />
I’m interested in Wolfram Alpha “answer Engine”.<br />
How do I find it?</p>
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		<title>By: Nick</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 20:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Honestly, as this is v 0.00000001 alpha of question answering computing (Computational Turk?), it&#039;s amazing that it works so well so far. Considering it&#039;s basically the first one of it&#039;s kind (at least with any sort of success record and public access), it&#039;s going to hobble for a while, but I&#039;m guessing that public interaction (especially if they follow google and amazon&#039;s ideas for instant feedback and ratings of the results) will help fine-tune their algorithm. 

The second I get access to W-A, I&#039;m going to have so much fun. Besides the obvious fun stuff like &quot;Will you marry me?&quot; I can think of a thousand situations where I&#039;ve wanted some random data about some random thing, and wasted tedious minutes finding it through google. I imagine W-A will provide a great jumping off point for further research, as it can produce relevant data on a subject, the kind you might have to do many google searches and then manually calculate yourself (which I am far too lazy to do).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Honestly, as this is v 0.00000001 alpha of question answering computing (Computational Turk?), it&#8217;s amazing that it works so well so far. Considering it&#8217;s basically the first one of it&#8217;s kind (at least with any sort of success record and public access), it&#8217;s going to hobble for a while, but I&#8217;m guessing that public interaction (especially if they follow google and amazon&#8217;s ideas for instant feedback and ratings of the results) will help fine-tune their algorithm. </p>
<p>The second I get access to W-A, I&#8217;m going to have so much fun. Besides the obvious fun stuff like &#8220;Will you marry me?&#8221; I can think of a thousand situations where I&#8217;ve wanted some random data about some random thing, and wasted tedious minutes finding it through google. I imagine W-A will provide a great jumping off point for further research, as it can produce relevant data on a subject, the kind you might have to do many google searches and then manually calculate yourself (which I am far too lazy to do).</p>
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