Goofram Neatly Combines Google And Wolfram Results

@jc364: Google is not as different from other companies as you might think. They didn't invent web search, maps, email, photo editing, instant messaging, blogging, calendars, news aggregation, RSS aggregation, or any of the other products for which they are well known. They simply improved upon them, and combined with their ads, have found a way to make money from them. Likewise, Microsoft didn't invent web search, maps, email, word processing, spreadsheets, operating systems, photo management, web server software, etc. They simply built upon what other had done and found a market for their products. Repeat with virtually any of the other companies I mentioned before. Most products from most companies are evolutionary, not revolutionary.

sweetmonkey

@miquonranger03: Google is still the king of search because W|A is not a search engine. I thought people would understand that by now.

RoFLKOPTr

heck. I just like the name!

chstwnd

@Phoshi: mis-click ftl....

I've used it twice for information about Apple and MS for a post here, but other than that, I haven't been back.

I was so quick to make a new post since I mis-clicked submit I didn't even have time to remember we can now edit our posts....

@wahoo-yahoo: fully agree!

@Phoshi: No? Really? Aside from google's regular web apps, they have a phone application and they're also in the process of making an Operating System. So when you say they're only dealing with the web, you're wrong.

@sweetmonkey: Microsoft was once popular and (still is) making crap-loads of money trying to everything and anything. I really agree with wahoo-yahoo. They're widening their view too much and trying to accomplish too much at once.

atomicrabbit

@sweetmonkey: The trick is to create a completely new product instead of creating something that someone else has already done. IMO, this is why Google is not like Microsoft.

jc364

@sweetmonkey: It's not a search engine.

Andrew Steven Midthune

Personally, I like Google & Bing better. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12253

@wahoo-yahoo: A broad range of projects or businesses doesn't spell disaster for a company. Consider General Electric, AT&T, Berkshire Hathaway, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Johnson Controls, Disney, American Express, DuPont, and 3M, for example--these are just a handful of widely diversified and extremely successful companies, as evidenced in part by their places in the Fortune 100. In fact, compared to some of these companies, Google has a tightly focused set of interests.

sweetmonkey

@UnderLoK: I completely agree. For a couple of specific applications, it's been handy, but it doesn't even enter my consideration set for general searches. Perhaps my expectations were too high.

sweetmonkey

@OCEntertainment: Should have called it Woogle.

Samu Wade

@miquonranger03: Wolfram Alpha isn't a search engine..

@TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.: Sadly, you won't be able to call it "Wolfram Alpha Google Beta" anymore.

@miquonranger03: It doesn't show up if wolfram doesn't "get" it.

Well, this will come in handy when I want to add a page that always says "Wolfram Alpha is not sure to do with your input" next to my Google results, just to show why Google is currently the king of search.

miquonranger03

"Goofram Neatly Combines Google and Wolfram Results"

....And actually finds a way to make both sound sillier. Didn't think it was possible.

@UnderLoK: The main thing about Wolfram is that it is really useful for very specific tasks, and not much of a throw everything at it and it'll work.

peanut_butter

Is anyone else thrown off by the use of frames to combine the results? A results page looks horribly cramped at 1280 x 1024 for me.

ericgoblue

There is also www.bingandgoogle.com to compare (the obvious) Bing and Google results.

VernonApplesauce

@UnderLoK: Certainly not! I've used it 3 or 4 times for things where nothing else would provide the same result!

@wahoo-yahoo: This isn't done by Google, though. Google are trying to rule the web, and good on them, I say. Nothing will progress unless people try,

I prefer the "Wolfram Alpha Google" extension for firefox, since you can easily toggle it on/off whenever you feel like it.

But i'm adding this to my search box list anyhow, more options never hurt anyone.

TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.

Google like microsoft is trying to be all things and is doomed to fail sooner than late. mark this.

wahoo-yahoo

@UnderLoK:Nope...same here
But Goofram is a great idea.

callrecall911

While I thought that Wolfram was going to be extremely handy I have to say that since I got past the "ohhhhhh ahhhh" stage I haven't been back.

Am I alone on this?

Ha ha lumpsucker!!

already a "server error" on the left side of the screen (where the Google search results are to go). Probably was a violation of Google's Custom Search rules on that page

Joe Duck

However, it was much more forthcoming when I asked: What is Tawker? And it showed no results. That was the correct answer, nothing.

paintbox

I asked it this: What was the population of Constantinople in April of 1453?

What I got was a copyright notice and the message, "Wolfram|Alpha is loading". Nothing changed when I allowed js for the whole site.

Maybe it just didn’t have any info about it, though you’d think there would be something.

paintbox

It's nice being able to think up a Wolfram or Google oriented query and use one search bar. They also both seem to understand some stuff like unit conversions, places, websites, etc. Basically, if you're going to use one engine, why not query both with the same effort?

BathshebaJobnick

There is also a firefox add-on the automatically does this for you when simply searching on google.com

BarclayJebbies

Yubnub: mash %s g wolfram

RufusMalik

@MS-18E Shadoblak: YES, thank you.

And until people get that, it's gonna get a lot of unnecessary flack. Currently, I'm in love with Wolframalpha since I'm teaching myself calculus and every free desktop graphing calculator out there cannot compute i.

Although, WRA seriously needs to loosen up on the syntax.

dunvi