Should Google Worry?

[rajinisback09]

Apparently this new website to be lauched soon is major competition for google. Hmmm What is your opinion?

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article6307744.ecehttp://www.wolframalpha.com/

Raj

 

[garysgold]

This site doesn't seem to do search at all, so no at this point they have nothing to worry about. Almost every search I have tried it says 'Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input.' If I search my name it tells me the distance between two cities Gary, Indiana and a city/town in Bavaria. Huh.

 

[Lordbob75]

I think Google will retain its power for a few reasons:
1: its big and popular NOW
2: its name is easier to say and remember (biggie. doesn't seem like it but...)
3: Its working on more things than a search engine.

~Lordbob

 

[mxosder16]

i tired it out and it's not going to beat google.
i typed in my city and got some cool info but if i tried a normal search it would return the 'Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input' thing

 

[Captain Zero]

This 'trinket' of a site may be of interest to a few academics but... It won't rival Google. As a repository for reference material, it appears to be useful. To see what I mean, enter the name of a small, obscure town. I used 'Fredericton' and it displayed some interesting geo/socio data.

But beyond that, I can use my Blackberry to do metric conversions.

 

[Compaker]

Its more like Wikipedia than a search engine....

 

[z3r010]

Google will be the dominating force in the search engine market for a very long time to come, we hear every few months of a new "google killer" search engine but this is always just marketing spin from some small start-up looking to fleece greedy investors that want a piece of the google pie.

 

[DocBrown]

Google will be the dominating force in the search engine market for a very long time to come, we hear every few months of a new "google killer" search engine but this is always just marketing spin from some small start-up looking to fleece greedy investors that want a piece of the google pie.

I agree

and I give 2nd place to Yahoo.

 

[Lordbob75]

I agree

and I give 2nd place to Yahoo.

The main reason I don't like Yahoo is because of their mess of a homepage. And all pages in general. Google keeps it clean, simple, and easy to navigate. I have used Yahoo for a few things, and it is near worthless.
Just my opinion.

~Lordbob

 

[Copyright]

This thing is pretty cool when it comes to math equations. Just a simple example is entering a trinomial http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=x^2+%2B+5x+%2B+4 , look at all the information it gives, this is perfect for checking calculus problems that are pages long.

EDIT:
I just noticed that this thing shows the steps to solving an equation, as well. I will be using this search engine, but not as much as Google, nor for things I would normally use Google for in the first place.

 

[jimbo45]

Yahoo is fine for Free Stock market quotes and EOD (End of day data -- Open, High, Low,Close and Volume) .

Other than that Google still has it -- but it's definitely getting worse
for example sometimes I click on a search, it gives what appears to be an answer and when you click on the link you get a load of stuff nothing to do with your original search.

Also the ads just seem to become more and more intrusive -- I HATE web advertising -- fortunately I can skip most of it but you sometimes get those little square boxes which throw up stuff just over where you are reading - now that's 100% irritating.

A Google competitor would certainly be OK -- No corporation ever lasts forever-- even the Roman Empire and the "1,000 year Reich" all passed their sell by dates (in the case of the last one thank goodness) well before their "anticipated lifetime".

Cheers
jimbo

 

[swarfega]

Microsoft will be releasing their forthcoming kumo search engine updating live search in the very near future. I think Google will be more concerned about that than some small ugly site.

 

[johngalt]

Swarfega - the developer of the site, Wolfram research, is the same company that develops the Maple mathematics software. Here is a good read on the guy behind the company:

Stephen Wolfram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

He's definitely weird, and eccentric, but a genius nonetheless. And if he can get some serious venture capital backing to put up even a single data center like Google has, you can bet your arse that Google is gonna be worried.

 

[bhuulo]

@ johngalt
I must say u really love ur system as u have posted so many photos of ur system

 

[Lordbob75]

@ johngalt
I must say u really love ur system as u have posted so many photos of ur system

Haha, little bit Narcissistic are we?

~Lordbob

 

[bhuulo]

Haha, little bit Narcissistic are we?

~Lordbob

No, No its a plain liking towards self personal item...

 

[Lordbob75]

No, No its a plain liking towards self personal item...

True, but I couldn't think of a word for that and narcissistic popped up first.

~Lordbob

 

[bhuulo]

True, but I couldn't think of a word for that and narcissistic popped up first.

~Lordbob

I think its very hard word

 

[rajinisback09]

Look at all the media promotion of Twitter and how big it got in such short time. Google wants to partnership with Twitter because its dominating. Johngalt you were thinking the same thing I was.

Lordbob75, Yes google is becoming more than a search engine. Creepy stuff when you think about it:
People Tracking Software
Google Earth
Google retaining user searches (read so many stories about this)
Google will OWN the new smart grid coming out (power monitoring of citizens)
Google will host all American Medical records (obama wants this..will wind cause more harm than good)
Google street cameras in NYC and other parts of the world.
Yea I'm not happy about this "wanting to run the world" google crap.
Raj

 

[jazzpicker]

Nobody can predict what will happen with computers but as long as Google keeps things simple and just points us in the right direction as always, it will have no worries.