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I tend to wolfram it when googling it fails. E.g. when considering buying a new place in Tokyo: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=historical+interest+rates+

by veidr 15y ago

I tend to wolfram it when googling it fails. E.g. when considering buying a new place in Tokyo: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=historical+interest+rates+in+Japan http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=historical+interest+rat... Compare those awesome results to the crap google offers: http://www.google.com/search?safari&rls=en&q=historical+interest+rates+in+Japan&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 http://www.google.com/search?safari&rls=en&q=histori... Google is more generally useful, and has changed all of our lives for the better. Nevertheless, Wolfram Alpha is far more useful in certain contexts, in my experience, and not necessarily just for mathy stuff.

Canopy 15y ago
A problem with Wolfram (today?) is that it thinks in English. For most non native english users in the world, building a search in Wolfram is to hard, compared to Google which need only the core words. I'm impressed each time I see a successful query but it's always a query made by somebody else : each time I try WA gives me useless numbers unrelated to my query.