Wolfram|Alpha API launched
Wolfram|Alpha has announced the launch of their API which would allow third party developers to build applications and services powered by their computational engine.
Wolfram|Alpha spoke about this API launch in a blog posting:
Overwhelmingly, developers see Wolfram|Alpha as a platform for building a business—providing commercial services that leverage Wolfram|Alpha’s unique capabilities.
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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 [...]
Google Squared is now Live
Google has announced their new search service Google Squared last month. It has finally gone live for public usage.
This service would be useful for those web users who are amazed to see the capabilities of Wolfram|Alpha.
Google Squared is somewhat similar but in a very crude way.
You start off with [...]
Google sees Facebook as a rival in search!
Google has been dominating the search engine market for a long time now.
Both Microsoft and Yahoo have failed to provide enough challenge.
However, social networking is changing the market scenario and Google has admitted that Facebook is turning into a major rival in the search engine segment.
Google said [...]
Microsoft Kumo might arrive next week
There is a strong possibility that Microsoft would finally launch their Kumo codenamed search engine next week.
Microsoft Kumo is currently undergoing private beta testing. We have already seen referral hits from Kumo.com in our server logs.
It remains to be seen if Kumo would be launched on its own [...]
WolframAlpha latest to take on web search challenge
Google is the dominating player in the search engine market and they do a pretty good job of indexing the web and making it available for searching.
WolframAlpha is a new player in this market which aims to make a “computational knowledge engine.”
The aim is to not compete [...]
