Bing Licenses Wolfram|Alpha for Computational Searches
Bing Licenses Wolfram|Alpha for Computational Searches
Posted 11/11/2009 at 4:24pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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Microsoft’s Bing search engine has announced the roll out of a new feature. Now when you search from Bing, you can get access to the Wolfram Alpha computational knowledge engine. The Wolfram Alpha engine was developed by noted scientist Stephen Wolfram. It launched in May of 2009.
Wolfram Alpha tends to be a little on the confusing side. It makes sense to integrate it into a more consumer oriented engine where people might get some use out of it. One possible use scenario highlighted by Microsoft is that of tracking health and nutrition.
Say you need to know the nutritional value of a steak, now Bing can tell you in detail. Already ate it? Bing can also use the Wolfram Alpha algorithms to determine your BMI and compare it to the rest of the population, thus making you sorry you ate the steak. Of course, you can still do all the complex math calculations that Wolfram Alpha is known for, but who really needs that in Bing? So, does any of this sound useful to you?
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Techrocket9
November 12, 2009 at 7:46am
Why can't Google do this?
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tehninjapwns
November 12, 2009 at 4:15am
It seems that Microsoft has finally figured out a way to distinguish Bing from Google. It has obviously been looking for this since the days of Live Search, but until now it hasn't really happened. Can't wait to see the ads for this one, though...
mattman059
November 11, 2009 at 7:58pm
If i needed to do anything that wolfram alpha could do.....id just go to the wolfram alpha site...i have it bookmarked..easier than bing :P more fun too
Selio
November 11, 2009 at 5:01pm
I love wolfram alpha, I just wish they wouldn't license it to Microsoft. I'd prefer they worked on making wolfram a viable search engine to integrating with bing.
1337Goose
November 11, 2009 at 4:28pm
Wolfram Alpha is actually pretty useful, but I don't think tying it to Bing will be enough to pull me away from Google.
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