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I'd like to know whose idea it was for hyping Wolfram Alpha as a Google Killer

• paulgb 17y ago
  Did they, or did the press take that on all by themselves? I mostly avoided the hype about it so I could well have missed something, but the only article I saw quoting Wolfram as having said anything about search was miss-attributed. Most of the direct quotes seemed to downplay any comparisons to Google.
  • vaksel 17y ago
    yeah thats what I'm asking...was this their idea, their PR company's, or just the press chasing a story
    • paulgb 17y ago
      Ah, sorry. I thought you meant who within the company is responsible.
  • falien 17y ago
    I dont think I saw wolfram (the company) hyping alpha as a google killer anywhere, but all their material about it definitely over-hypes it for what it does right now. Alpha definitely does some interesting things, but all the material I've seen from them is either complete fluff (we don't just index, we compute knowledge) or not anywhere near production ready (natural language processing). Also the part about having reviewed information becomes completely useless when they refuse to cite where specific information came from and instead cite a cloud of fuzzy sources.