But Spock and Uhura? Really?
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I'm with you. I wanted to find out the average speed someone can walk:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=average+walking+speed+of+man&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
There it is, first result, even in the cached text.
http://www72.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=average+walking+speed+of+man
Gives me another search to try:
http://www72.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=walking+speed+of+man
I have no idea what that is. Some kind of exercise its telling me to do? :)
Yeah, no idea about Spock and Uhura. Wtf.
Posted by: Nate | May 22, 2009 at 06:19 PM
bing.com is able to do reasonably well... the answer you're looking for is in the top 2 results:
http://www.bing.com/search?q=what+was+the+name+of+spock%27s+mother%3F&go=&form=QBLH
Posted by: mattpaul | June 01, 2009 at 06:35 PM
I don't know, 400m/min seems to have the unit for speed. And oh look, it actually says speed by it...
No seriously, if you're comparing the two sites using different metrics, one being using a query to sift through human-created content and another that has the ability to parse the input and decide on what the most relevant answer would be (the two are different) I would definitely go for the one that optimizes the result down to a single and in most cases, a correct one. Wolfram's designed from a Mathematical computation engine, not a content indexer, it's not the same thing as a search engine...
Posted by: Lee | June 07, 2009 at 10:07 PM
You obviously completely missed the point of the Alpha.
Posted by: Steven Oliver | July 28, 2009 at 10:38 AM