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DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha are now official partners

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Re: DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha are now official partners

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Post by epi0Bauqu »

ck2 wrote: post #7

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

Thx -- will do.

Re: DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha are now official partners

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Post by ugh »

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.

Who cares? Wolfram|Alpha is a pretty nice service (disappointing compared to the grandiose announcements, sure, but nice nonetheless) and even if it weren't, DDG wouldn't be negativly affected all that much.

Now, if W|A were to fund a genocidal maniac there would be a point to boycotting DDG – but for Wolfram being an asshole?

Re: DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha are now official partners

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Post by gojomo »

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.

Why would the creator personality figure into your support of a service at all? If you only consumed the output of humble artists/inventors/writers/entrepreneurs, you'd live a fairly impoverished life.

(Is there a name for discounting a company/product based on the creator rather than its merits? Or is ad hominem sufficiently applicable here, as well?)

Re: DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha are now official partners

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Post by spot »

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.

maybe you should look into the time he was sued by all his employees. and i don't meant the rule 110 thing, which was pretty lame, i'm talking about the one where he created a shell company and signed over the key assets they had all created in order to make the employees equity worthless. yea, fraud.

Re: DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha are now official partners

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Post by cynicalkane »

spot wrote: post #15
hvs wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A major corporation with an arrogant CEO? Imagine that.

maybe you should look into the time he was sued by all his employees. and i don't meant the rule 110 thing, which was pretty lame, i'm talking about the one where he created a shell company and signed over the key assets they had all created in order to make the employees equity worthless. yea, fraud.

I can't find anything about this. Link?

Re: DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha are now official partners

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Post by hugh3 »

jayzee wrote: post #10
hvs wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. -- from wikipedia

He is, nonetheless, considered insufferably arrogant even by the standards of other geniuses (and CEOs).

Does any of this matter for his products? Naah. Mathematica and Alpha are good, and as for A New Kind Of Science... well, I doubt I'll ever bother to read enough of it to find out.

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