Yesterday knowledge engine Wolfram|Alpha announced an intriguing new paid service Wolfram|Alpha Pro. Gary Price wrote an overview of the new service, which will likely appeal to academics, data geeks and a range of other specialized users. Wolfram|Alpha is by no means a mainstream search engine, yet it has managed to establish something of a beachhead and has a growing fan base. It owes some of that to Apple's Siri, which chose Wolfram|Alpha as one of two structured data providers that tie directly into the personal assistant. The other is Yelp. Wolfram|Alpha gets about 3.7 million dail [...]

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Wolfram|Alpha (W|A) is launching a new fee-based service named Wolfram|Alpha Pro. In today's highly competitive environment, you may wonder why a W|A would ask people to pay for what many think should be free. Read on: you may decide to willingly open your wallet when you see what's available. Since Wolfram|Alpha launched in 2009, I’ve often wondered if the company would allow users to use their extremely powerful computing infrastructure to analyze their own data along with data sets available on the open web. Well, they have and that's what Wolfram|Alpha Pro is all about. As I wrote [...]

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I am a long time admirer of Wolfram|Alpha and I'm happy to report that my admiration continues to grow, as you can now access NFL (National Football League) statistics using Wolfram|Alpha. So, queries like: Tom Brady Joe Flacco Passing Yards 49ers 2011 New York Giants field goal attempts, field goals made Chicago Bears Record 1985 Ray Lewis Tackles Detroit Lions vs. Denver Broncos Passing Yards all return results that often include visual elements like a graph. Statistical data for every NFL team and every NFL player back to 1985 are available and the number of stati [...]

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You may not love this as much as I do, but that's okay. Wolfram Alpha has just launched what I'd have to put on any year-end list of the coolest search technologies of 2011: a tool that tells you, literally, what flights are in the sky above you. To access this literal, real-time flight search, just type "flights overhead" into the Wolfram Alpha search box, and voilá! If you're using a desktop computer, Wolfram Alpha does its best to figure out your location automatically and -- if there are flights in the sky above you -- lists the commercial flights in the area. You'll also see the plane [...]

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Wolfram Alpha is a fascinating "un" search engine that's a great alternative to Google for many types of queries. And creator/master curator Stephen Wolfram is a pretty interesting guy himself. It's been a year since the official launch of Wolfram Alpha, and Wolfram will be hosting a live Q&A session to talk about how the service have evolved over the past year. Tune in on Facebook or Wolfram|Alpha’s Livestream on Wednesday, May 18, 2011, at 10am PDT/12pm CDT/1pm EDT/6pm BST. Questions? Tweet to @Wolfram_Alpha and include the hashtag #WAChat. [...]

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