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Re:Tell HN: Wolfram Alpha preview goes live by mojuba on Friday May 08, 2009 @08:41PM (#600544)
http://www.google.com/search?q=Fertility+vs.+per+capita+GDP+...

You can click on the first link - your answers are there.

Notice that the two examples you gave belong to a fairly narrow field - statistics, something that seems to be the trickiest to collect in more or less structured form. But try it yourself, you'll see how easy it is to find virtually anything nowadays. In most cases there's a good chance someone in the world thought about something you are interested in and has put it out on the Net already. If you are the first to ask a question, then I doubt WA will give you useful results either.

Re:Tell HN: Wolfram Alpha preview goes live by jpd on Friday May 08, 2009 @08:51PM (#600555)
The results for "Fertility vs. per capita GDP for continents" is significantly less useful though.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=Fertil...

Re:Tell HN: Wolfram Alpha preview goes live by mojuba on Friday May 08, 2009 @09:00PM (#600567)
True, because neither is the question itself very useful, and thus nobody cared to build an answer for it.