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Re:Tell HN: Wolfram Alpha preview goes live by amichail on Friday May 08, 2009 @06:42PM (#600379)
Natural language interfaces have failed repeatedly. And so have attempts at the semantic web.

What does work and scales is more free form as is the case with the Web today.

And Google makes "free form" work.

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Re:Tell HN: Wolfram Alpha preview goes live by volida on Saturday May 09, 2009 @12:34AM (#600726)
there are people out there that cant write in C. Does that mean good programs wouldnt have been written in it?
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