DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha are now official partners

spitfire wrote: post #5

eli wrote: post #4

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Err.. why?

Have you met Stephen Wolfram? He makes Donald Trump look humble.

A major corporation with an arrogant CEO? Imagine that.

Re: DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha are now official partners

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Post by ck2 » Mon, Apr 18, 2011, 8:05 PM UTC

Haven't tried them in awhile - I must say the ui/results are much better than all my previous experiences - is it wrong that I really miss the estimated results at the top of searches?

Also, they need to disregard the Wolfram result when it's useless:

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=population+of+nyc+in+2020

Re: DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha are now official partners

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Post by sskates » Mon, Apr 18, 2011, 8:06 PM UTC

That's pretty cool that you guys negotiated this and they were reasonable.

Re: DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha are now official partners

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Post by radicaldreamer » Mon, Apr 18, 2011, 8:20 PM UTC

spitfire wrote: post #5

eli wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Err.. why?

Have you met Stephen Wolfram? He makes Donald Trump look humble.

I'm not sure what the direct relationship between the arrogance of Stephen Wolfram has to do with Wolfram Research.

Wolfram is outspoken about his work on cellular automata, which a lot of people think is overblown, but his company's work stands on it's own- and it's quite good.

Re: DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha are now official partners

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Post by jayzee » Mon, Apr 18, 2011, 8:21 PM UTC

hvs wrote: post #6

spitfire wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you met Stephen Wolfram? He makes Donald Trump look humble.

A major corporation with an arrogant CEO? Imagine that.

A major corporation with an arrogant CEO who received a Ph.D. in particle physics from the California Institute of Technology at age 20,joined the faculty there, and received one of the first MacArthur awards in 1981, at age 21. Lets cut him some slack for being awesome.

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