After I took out some of my aggression on WolframAlpha a couple weeks ago (and managed to misspell “Stephen Wolfram” and not even notice until now), I’ve decided to somewhat revise my statements.
While WolframAlpha is still nothing special, I’ve been using it pretty much every day. It’s sort of a replacement for my calculator, much in the way Google was. I used to do, for example, physics problem sets and type basic equations into Google, like 
It can even somtimes surprise you with its abilities:
Not bad
So the moral of the story is that WolframAlpha isn’t all bad; we sciency-types can still find it somewhat useful.
In other news, wasn’t Google Squared supposed to be out by now?
June 1, 2009 at 3:32 am |
Yeah Google Squared was suppose to exist (in some form or other) by the end of May – going by Washington state time that leaves us around 3 hours.
Shame I’m in the UK and still hoping/waiting for it.
As for W|A – I still don’t see what all the fuss is about – it’s a calculator app for an iPhone or PDA at best.