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It’s tonight. Readwriteweb has a pretty good overview of the event, including this:

  • Wolfram Alpha is not a general purpose search engine – it does not directly compete with Google and if you treat it like Google, you will inevitably be disappointed
  • check out the copious amount of examples from the homepage – they will give you a good idea for the type of queries that Alpha can handle best
  • here is one thing we can almost guarantee: you will be disappointed at first (especially if you were expecting a Google killer)
  • Alpha is a great tool, but it takes some time to learn about its limits and strengths. Unlike Google, some searches simply won’t return any result at all

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Alex Eckelberry