Wolfram Alpha Knowledge Search Engine

Hi evil


We did have a convo on this a few weeks back here but at the time nothing was launched so cheers for heads up.


One quick thing they need to fix is better servers and capacity, no doubt alot of users are trying this search engine out and they dont have bandwidth to cope yet, early in the trial, but they need to make it quicker or users will go back to Google, Live, Yahoo, ASK


Plus still doesnt at this point fully do what they said, in narrowing down the info to what you typed in, for instance a PITA for me is in searching for a medical disease that has the acronym of AMD, now you see my predicament in its a CPU maker too, so I try a search on amd eye and still get the CPU maker and their stock quote whereas my favoured search engines that are clustering ones narrow the info down quickly in threads.

Even trying to use another acronym used for said disease in armd eye (added the eye bit to help narrow its search down as more data reaps better answers) and gained a

/above is the beta tester in me coming out


I have no doubt that in a years time this search engine "may" rival the other big engines, but its got a fair way to go and I'm still not convinced at the quality aspect when they mention in their older press converence blurb

And with what was mentioned in 1000 experts in various fields monitoring the info, this seems way way too low given the vast amount of data and information thats on the internet on any given subject, which may lead me to summise that they may be selective in the search results given to keep quality up so if you search on something you're not always going to get an answer! time will tell.

 

Doesnt even know what its suggestion of makware is either, lists India and its population and language, if it wanted to be accurate Makware is a city in Burma/Myanmar.

Know its early days but speed and accuracy is needed and I really still have doubts on the accuracy of info given that they are to employ professionals to weed out the bad info, Wikipedia suffers and it has many more contributers.

I do hope they get this one right as it will be a benefit to all in searching the net, which now is hard to search accuratly for info you want, in computing you need when searching for file names etc to wade through countless HJT log threads to find anything useful.