Wolfram Alpha

Knowledge engine?

It has recently been heralded as the next big thing in the search engine world.

Well although it has a different way of serving the results actually showing relevant information it is flawed still.

One of their examples to try is $250 +15%
Great, you get the answer $287.50 But the second you change the $ to a £ it fails, it doesn’t understand. Petty perhaps but when searching for info people want fast results from an engine that works.

It does work for a lot of things and it is impressive when it does, it’s just frustrating when you have to refine your searches all the time. It can do intense calculations and other things but fails on some of the simplest searches.

Try it for yourself.

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