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Re:Wolfram Alpha: What is love? What Alpha feels towards the... by mojuba on Thursday August 20, 2009 @07:22AM (#774773)
Meanwhile, WA's traffic has stabilized at pre-release levels: http://alexa.com/siteinfo/wolframalpha.com

I think the best measure of disappointment for a web site is current traffic to release-day traffic ratio. It is huge for WalframAlpha.

Re:Wolfram Alpha: What is love? What Alpha feels towards the... by beza1e1 on Thursday August 20, 2009 @08:44AM (#774885)
Lately I had a task suitable for Wolfram Alpha. Calculate the inflation factor in Germany from 1973 to today. The data is available. Alpha shows a diagram: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=inflation+rate+Germany I can't figure out how to let it calculate the cumulative factor, though. At least i'd like to get a table of the numbers to do it myself but even the source aren't helpful here.
Re:Wolfram Alpha: What is love? What Alpha feels towards the... by icey on Thursday August 20, 2009 @12:01PM (#775321)
Am I the only person who uses WA on a regular basis to actually get information?

Here are some searches I do with some regularity:

Weather: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=weather+in+phoenix

IP address of my current machine: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=current+IP

Date calculations: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=8+weeks+from+september+...

etc...

Re:Wolfram Alpha: What is love? What Alpha feels towards the... by Raphael on Thursday August 20, 2009 @03:47AM (#774617)
Baby, don't hurt me. Don't hurt me no more.
Re:Wolfram Alpha: What is love? What Alpha feels towards the... by andyleclair on Thursday August 20, 2009 @12:14PM (#775357)
I like that of all the comments, this is the highest rated (as of 9:14am Pacific time)
Re:Wolfram Alpha: What is love? What Alpha feels towards the... by jpwagner on Thursday August 20, 2009 @05:19AM (#774683)
Wolfram Alpha: the most computationally intensive joke-teller ever.
Re:Wolfram Alpha: What is love? What Alpha feels towards the... by amohr on Thursday August 20, 2009 @05:21AM (#774684)
Or the world's wittiest calculator?