Wolfram to rival Google?

D-A-L · #1 (**permalink**) 11-03-2009, 09:36 PM

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Wolfram aims to unveil the new search engine to the public in two months time, and has so far tantalised us with claims that with a mixture of many clever algorithms and heuristics, lots of linguistic discovery and linguistic curation, and what probably amount to some serious theoretical breakthroughs, were actually managing to make -Wolfram|Alpha- work.

Digerati · #2 (**permalink**) 11-03-2009, 11:01 PM

Ha! When I first saw this I immediately though of Cuil - which was overhyped and disappointing. I hope the same thing does not happen here.

dobhar · #3 (**permalink**) 12-03-2009, 12:23 AM

Hey Bill...Man, where have I been...I never even heard of Cuil...I'll have to at least give it a try...

Digerati · #4 (**permalink**) 12-03-2009, 04:00 AM

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Originally Posted by dobhar

Hey Bill...Man, where have I been...I never even heard of Cuil...I'll have to at least give it a try...

That must have been some rock!

cuil - A new search engine

dobhar · #5 (**permalink**) 12-03-2009, 06:18 AM

Yeppers....

A real big one...

I'm going to had to give Cuil a try to see if they've improved since it you all posted about a few months ago...

Digerati · #6 (**permalink**) 12-03-2009, 04:15 PM

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I'm going to had to give Cuil a try to see if they've improved since it you all posted about a few months ago...

I'll be interested in your review. Because Google sucks - but all the others do more.

D-A-L · #7 (**permalink**) 13-03-2009, 02:19 PM

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Because Google sucks - but all the others do more.

Google sucks?

Digerati · #8 (**permalink**) 13-03-2009, 04:29 PM

Sure! A perfect search engine will pop up the correct answer on the top of the list every time. While Google may be the best search engine available, it still sucks, requiring the user to know much about the topic first, in order to enter the correct keywords (with almost perfect spelling).

Kaistar · #9 (**permalink**) 13-03-2009, 04:43 PM

I do hope that some other search engine would be able to rival google soon. I don't think it's beneficial for the users when one particular company kicks ass too much.

*thinks back to nVidia graphics card prices when AMD just bought ATI*
*shivers*

nickadams123 · #10 (**permalink**) 22-07-2009, 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Kaistar

I do hope that some other search engine would be able to rival google soon. I don't think it's beneficial for the users when one particular company kicks ass too much.

*thinks back to nVidia graphics card prices when AMD just bought ATI*
*shivers*

Bing is here in the field to counter Google....But honestly speaking... no search engine in a position to counter Google. As it enjoys almost 80% popularity and rest of all only 20%.
I think it is not possible atleast for coming years.