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Re:Wolfram Alpha is Coming -- and It Could be as Important a... by shimonamit on Sunday March 08, 2009 @10:53AM (#507221)
Sounds like another Cuil hype type campaign. When Google came out they didn't make any claims. Only factual performance counts.
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Re:Wolfram Alpha is Coming -- and It Could be as Important a... by anamax on Sunday March 08, 2009 @12:06PM (#507278)
> When Google came out they didn't make any claims. Only factual performance counts.

A cite to some Google claims when they came out would be nice. (Academic papers don't count.)

I was in the SF Bay Area at the time and the "publicity" that I remember was friends saying "check this out". I don't recall Google saying anything beyond "here's how many pages we indexed".

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Re:Wolfram Alpha is Coming -- and It Could be as Important a... by shadytrees on Sunday March 08, 2009 @12:38PM (#507303)
> I don't recall Google saying anything beyond "here's how many pages we indexed".

I think that's the point shimonamit is making.

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