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'Wolfram' is a terrible name for a search engine. Many languages around the world do not even use a letter akin to 'w', often using 'v' in place of both 'v' and
by dilanj 17y ago
'Wolfram' is a terrible name for a search engine. Many languages around the world do not even use a letter akin to 'w', often using 'v' in place of both 'v' and 'w'. This is one reason for Yahoo's dominance in non-native English speaking countries.
'Wolfram' will be unpronounceable and unmemorable for a large percentage of world's population.
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- grinich 17y agoA rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Just because they won't be able to pronounce it like an old English man doesn't make the service any less useful or powerful. And I don't buy Yahoo's name is the reason for its success.
- rythie 17y agoWolfram is the existing brand they have already long established which already is well known in Universities through Mathematica product. Since this product will appeal to a similar set of users, it wouldn't be a good idea to start a fresh with a new brand.
- edmccaffrey 17y agoIt's English-only, for now, because of the language processing.
- anshul 17y agoI am guessing that colloquially they would like the search engine to be called just alpha which probably will work. "Did you alpha for that data?"