Monday, May 18, 2009

New Search Engine

Have ya'll heard about the new search engine called Wolfram Alpha? It's designed to give you answers instead of linking you to websites. I was messing around with it today and plugged my birthday date in. It will also compute fairly complex searches like largest countries by area in Africa. You can also compare different states or countries by entering them and separating them by commas. I did California, Michigan and North Carolina here. If you look near the bottom you can see it generated a graph comparing the population growth of all three states. I am going to use it for reference questions at work and see how it does me.

4 comments:

Luisa said...

I've been trying it out. It works really well, especially for language translations, which surprises me. I've been lokking forward to it since you first porsted about it. Oh, as for the fliers, Im pretty sure we've been going for more than year. I started coming 6th/7th grade!!!

Emily said...

That is pretty neat.

gg said...

That's a good idea. I was being general but I can expand the time frame.

gg said...

Thanks for the suggestion, Luisa. I changed it to read "over two years."