It's a funny quote, but it ignores the fact that Wolfram Alpha
was never intended from the start to be a "Google killer".
From a PC World article:
The first thing Wolfram Research co-founder Theodore Grey wants you
to know is what Alpha is not: It is no "Google killer," as it's been
called by some reports. In fact, Alpha is very, very different from
a search engine.
Alpha is fairly good at what it is supposed to do, which
is to present data systematically and to do analysis of
that data that you are unlikely to find on any web page.
And it ties in really well with Mathematica if you want
to do a more sophisticated analysis of that data.
There is plenty of room for Alpha to coexist alongside
Google, and I expect that eventually Alpha results will
turn up in Google search results for some queries in
much the same way Wikipedia results do now.
Bing, I'm not so sure of. I went to the site, saw the
explanatory video and was not impressed. I'll reserve final
judgement until I can try it out myself a few times, though.
Why the name? Is MS trying to capture the all-important
mobster fan base? Or are cherries somehow involved?
On May 29, 2009, at 11:00 AM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system
wrote:
From: Allen Firstenberg <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: BING
Even better as a recursive algorithm:Bing
Is
Not
Google
My two favorite quotes about it so far:
"Bing and WolframAlpha are competing to be the next failed google
killer."
"Bing - Microsoft's latest attempt at irrelevancy."
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