Comments on: Could Groundbreaking New Search Engine, Wolfram Alpha be a Google Killer?

By: greg

greg — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:40:20 +0000

Personally I’m excited at the world of information that this will open up to researchers everywhere. I think at first we will find that it’s not what most people are hoping and looking for but mining for pure data in a current search engine is tantamount to sifting through junk mail.

That said, I don’t think it will be a Google Killer: http://www.sagerock.com/blog/wolframalpha-not-google-killer/

By: Ivo Cerckel

Ivo Cerckel — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:38:44 +0000

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This innovative search engine is more like having a source of artificial intelligence at your side, providing deductive reasoning to queries to help solve problems.
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The groundbreaking software, “understands” a user’s question
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Most people stop their deductive reasoning when they arrive at what they think are common-sense evidences.
It will be interesting to see how the software will deal with these.

In Book III, Chapter (Part?) 8 of De Anima (On the Soul),
Aristotle,
who also wrote a book De Partibus Animalium (On the Parts of Animals),
wrote that
the soul is analogous to the hand;
for as the hand is a tool of tools ,
so the mind is the form of [432a] forms
and sense the form of sensible things,
http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/soul.3.iii.html

I can tell you from the school of hard knocks,
and I mean this literally,
that a hand cannot be replaced by any prosthesis or hook.

Can the human mind?

We’ll see …

Ivo

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By: samju

samju — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:21:23 +0000

hey It’s really very good news. we all are very exited do work on this search engine.

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