Wolfram iPhone App Improves Upon Site Experience
Oct 19, 2009 at 11:01am ET by Greg Sterling
There's a way in which the just-released iPhone version of Wolfram Alpha makes more sense than the web version. The web version suggests a Google-like general search engine, which it is not; it's a "computational" or "fact engine" with a more limited range of use cases. It does what it does well -- offer a range of data, calculations and statistics often in a graphical form -- but often there are also no results or no directly relevant results for general or conventional search queries.
But holding Wolfram in your hand on the iPhone suggests a "calculator," which it more closely resembles [...]
Filed in: Search Engines: Other Search Engines, Search Engines: Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram|Alpha Opens Up Paid API
Oct 16, 2009 at 9:05am ET by Barry Schwartz
Wolfram|Alpha, the very impressive fact engine, has announced their new API that will allow third-parties to access and display results from their database.
The API is priced out with three tiers:
Developer & Personal Use Plans
Small & Medium Business Plans (up to 750,000 requests per month)
Enterprise Plans (over a million requests per month)
The data within Wolfram|Alpha is rich and detailed, where many search engines, universities, businesses and individuals can benefit from on some level.
There have been rumors of a private API for a while now, some suspected a deal with Bin [...]
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Wolfram Alpha To Enable API, Open Data To Others
Aug 31, 2009 at 8:01am ET by Greg Sterling
Not long ago "computational engine" Wolfram Alpha struck a deal with Microsoft to license some of its data to Bing. Now, according to the Guardian UK, Wolfram is going wide with that strategy and will soon enable an API that third parties can use to create mashups or enhance their sites.
This may be a step toward monetization and/or an admission that as a "search destination" it's foundering.
Wolfram today has a defined range of data (see the Wikipedia list), making it unpredictable for those not familiar with its capabilities and limitations. Chris and Danny both wrote positive reviews [...]
Filed in: Search Engines: Answer Search Engines, Search Engines: Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram Alpha Updates Its Progress; Also Has Deal With Bing?
Aug 21, 2009 at 5:17pm ET by Matt McGee
A little more than three months after its launch, Wolfram Alpha is getting smarter, bigger (in a couple ways), and busier. That's the word from Stephen Wolfram in a blog post about the site's progress so far. Not mentioned in his post is an unconfirmed report from TechCrunch that Wolfram Alpha also has a licensing deal with Bing.
Wolfram says one of the main challenges his fact engine has faced so far is in how people type queries:
"Close to half the time that Wolfram|Alpha doesn't give a result, it's not because it doesn't have the necessary knowledge, or can't do the necessary computat [...]
Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: Partnerships, Search Engines: Wolfram Alpha
WolframAlpha Goes Halfway On iPhone Mobile Search
Jun 12, 2009 at 9:14am ET by Barry Schwartz
The WolframAlpha Blog announced they have launched an iPhone mobile friendly version of their search engine. If you visit www.wolframalpha.com on your iPhone, you should see an iPhone friendly home screen. It looks like this:
The issue is, if you conduct any search, it doesn't give you an iPhone friendly version of the results page. Yes, the iPhone loads the normal page just find, but I find it weird to announce an iPhone version of a search engine when the search results are not specifically iPhone friendly. Here is a picture of a search results page, which I had to pinch to look g [...]
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