Is there a name for the Duck Duck Go duck?
If not, I find "Newton" would be rather apt.
DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha are now official partners
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Re: DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha are now official partners
#32Users of the up-and-coming search site DuckDuckGo know that the site is unique because it doesn’t track history, contains less spam, features a cute bow tie-wearing duck, and provides zero-click information that immediately pops up under the search box.
-- from Wolfram|Alpha announcement
Do not underestimate the bow tie-wearing duck feature. I'm sure Bing and Yahoo knockoffs are around the corner.
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#33Re: DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha are now official partners
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I spent two hours chatting with him at a conference recently. I did not experience any arrogance, insufferable or otherwise.
Re: DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha are now official partners
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Err.. why?
Have you met Stephen Wolfram? He makes Donald Trump look humble.
I was a talk by Stephen Wolfram at MIT in fall of 2010 about Wolfram Alpha. Never spoke to him personally. When Wolfram answered questions he was always direct and gave grounded answers -- not dreams.
More than once he had to remind people that a lot of the shortcomings they point out are not trivial. It's easy to see how someone could interpet him as egotistical for this. But Wolfram seemed much more focused on building a product now and making it better as you learn from customers.
Wolfram is not trying to make everyone happy. It seemed like is he is trying to build something he loves doing and see if others find it useful.
Re: DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha are now official partners
#36Haven'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.
Update: fixed.
Re: DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha are now official partners
#37very nice: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=x^2
Re: DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha are now official partners
#38Great news, my suggestion: ditch the "time calculated" info on Wolfram results.
I personally don't care that something was "Computed by Wolfram|Alpha at Mon Apr 18 2011 19:31:47 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)"
Just "Computed by Wolfram|Alpha" would suffice
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#39Re: DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha are now official partners
#40If you look at the traffic stats for WolframAlpha, it has the highest rank in Nigeria: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wolframalpha.com
I find this interesting.