Re:Like Google, Only Much, Much Worse
by noodle on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @01:16AM
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it kind of feels to me like this author willingly jumps into the exact same snake pit he's accusing wolfram and other journalists of falling into.
wolfram alpha isn't a google killer. but to expect any small company to somehow or another come up with a fully functional and completely superior-in-every-way product, and to get it right on the first try, is naive at best.
google has been at search for years and years. wolfram might develop into something that gives google a run. but to expect it to be a deux ex machina, catching up to google's more than a decade of development and billions of dollars sunk after only a year or two's worth of development, is fairly stupid.
wolfram alpha isn't a google killer. but to expect any small company to somehow or another come up with a fully functional and completely superior-in-every-way product, and to get it right on the first try, is naive at best.
google has been at search for years and years. wolfram might develop into something that gives google a run. but to expect it to be a deux ex machina, catching up to google's more than a decade of development and billions of dollars sunk after only a year or two's worth of development, is fairly stupid.