Wolfram|Alpha has been doing constant updates

Wolfram|Alpha has been doing some major updates

Stephen Wolfram has posted a long blog post on the updates that have been made on their computation search engine Wolfram|Alpha since it was launched earlier this year.

We are big fans of Wolfram|Alpha as it does not just show raw information collected from the web. Instead it computes it in front of your eyes and shows the results in the form of tabular data and images.

It can perform on queries which Google can only hope to at this point of time.

Wolfram spoke about the new updates:

But in writing this blog post, I just looked up what’s actually happened to the Wolfram|Alpha codebase since launch. And I have to say that I’m quite astonished: it’s grown by a staggering 52%—adding well over 2 million lines of Mathematica code.

There have also been nearly 50,000 manual groups of changes to our data repositories over the past 3 months.

Continually through each day we’re building new versions of the Wolfram|Alpha system, and doing automated tests. Over the course of the summer, we’ve dramatically increased the number and types of tests we have, both custom-built and derived from actual query streams.

As of now, of all the feedbacks we’ve received, we’ve classified 54,233 of them as bugs or suggestions. Of these, 31,006 are now in our implementation queue, boiled down to about 5800 to-do items.

Checkout: What We’ve Been Doing This Summer