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		<title>By: Roman ShaRP</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/16/wolfram-alpha-is-live/#comment-796939</link>
		<dc:creator>Roman ShaRP</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 15:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>1) It doesn&#039;t understand some languages at all (Russian, for example) 
2) But it gave pretty good forecast for on the &quot;weather in Kiev&quot; inquiry

So - I&#039;m agree with you: 
&lt;cite&gt;It is a Google Killer? No, definitely not. It does however provide better results than other search engines for results that can be computed mathematically.&lt;/cite&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1) It doesn&#8217;t understand some languages at all (Russian, for example)<br />
2) But it gave pretty good forecast for on the &#8220;weather in Kiev&#8221; inquiry</p>
<p>So &#8211; I&#8217;m agree with you:<br />
<cite>It is a Google Killer? No, definitely not. It does however provide better results than other search engines for results that can be computed mathematically.</cite></p>
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		<title>By: MKR</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/16/wolfram-alpha-is-live/#comment-794877</link>
		<dc:creator>MKR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 12:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ivo, I&#039;m going to assume your English comprehension is just not very good. You have completely missed my point.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ivo, I&#8217;m going to assume your English comprehension is just not very good. You have completely missed my point.</p>
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		<title>By: archer</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/16/wolfram-alpha-is-live/#comment-794600</link>
		<dc:creator>archer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 02:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>thanks. it actually worked fine. just have to reload the page to see the edit changes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>thanks. it actually worked fine. just have to reload the page to see the edit changes.</p>
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		<title>By: Ivo Cerckel</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/16/wolfram-alpha-is-live/#comment-794469</link>
		<dc:creator>Ivo Cerckel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 22:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>MKR ,

I am a refugee from Belgium.

I entered &quot;Belgium&quot;.

Here&#039;s part of what I got:
languages &#124; Dutch (40%) &#124; French (35%) &#124; Walloon (9.7%) &#124; Vlaams (9.2%) &#124; Limburgisch (5.2%)

Yes, it&#039;s been nine years that I had to flee from there,
but the latter three languages simply do NOT exist.
Yes, some (most?) people who speak Dutch say they speak Vlaams.
Some others (French speakers) may say they speak Walloon.
But you will be very hard pressed to meet somebody, except a student perhaps, who says she speaks Limburgisch.
But my information is nine years old, of course.
And I am either phenomenally dense or some sort of spambot.

I don&#039;t accept Wolfram Alpha as a source.

This is not curating data.
This is creating data.

The engine does not even mention that the official (not just spoken like Vlaams, Walloon and ... Limburgisch) language of six villages in Belgium is German. 

But  I am either phenomenally dense or some sort of spambot.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MKR ,</p>
<p>I am a refugee from Belgium.</p>
<p>I entered &#8220;Belgium&#8221;.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s part of what I got:<br />
languages | Dutch (40%) | French (35%) | Walloon (9.7%) | Vlaams (9.2%) | Limburgisch (5.2%)</p>
<p>Yes, it&#8217;s been nine years that I had to flee from there,<br />
but the latter three languages simply do NOT exist.<br />
Yes, some (most?) people who speak Dutch say they speak Vlaams.<br />
Some others (French speakers) may say they speak Walloon.<br />
But you will be very hard pressed to meet somebody, except a student perhaps, who says she speaks Limburgisch.<br />
But my information is nine years old, of course.<br />
And I am either phenomenally dense or some sort of spambot.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t accept Wolfram Alpha as a source.</p>
<p>This is not curating data.<br />
This is creating data.</p>
<p>The engine does not even mention that the official (not just spoken like Vlaams, Walloon and &#8230; Limburgisch) language of six villages in Belgium is German. </p>
<p>But  I am either phenomenally dense or some sort of spambot.</p>
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		<title>By: MKR</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/16/wolfram-alpha-is-live/#comment-794229</link>
		<dc:creator>MKR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 18:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>archer, don&#039;t forget that feedback box down at the bottom. If you find a failure and think it should return something, tell them. :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>archer, don&#8217;t forget that feedback box down at the bottom. If you find a failure and think it should return something, tell them. :)</p>
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		<title>By: archer</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/16/wolfram-alpha-is-live/#comment-794228</link>
		<dc:creator>archer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 17:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>edit feature appears to be broken. couldn&#039;t correct my typo from futrue to future</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>edit feature appears to be broken. couldn&#8217;t correct my typo from futrue to future</p>
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		<title>By: archer</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/16/wolfram-alpha-is-live/#comment-794224</link>
		<dc:creator>archer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 17:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>search &quot;future shock&quot;: 
wolfram; zero results, 
google; 177,000,000 results</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>search &#8220;future shock&#8221;:<br />
wolfram; zero results,<br />
google; 177,000,000 results</p>
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		<title>By: MKR</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/16/wolfram-alpha-is-live/#comment-793947</link>
		<dc:creator>MKR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 14:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You&#039;re either phenomenally dense or some sort of  spambot.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re either phenomenally dense or some sort of  spambot.</p>
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		<title>By: Ivo Cerckel</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/16/wolfram-alpha-is-live/#comment-793945</link>
		<dc:creator>Ivo Cerckel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 14:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Do you think life is a joke?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you think life is a joke?</p>
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		<title>By: MKR</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/16/wolfram-alpha-is-live/#comment-793941</link>
		<dc:creator>MKR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 14:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Are you trying to make a point?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you trying to make a point?</p>
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		<title>By: Ivo Cerckel</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/16/wolfram-alpha-is-live/#comment-793932</link>
		<dc:creator>Ivo Cerckel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 14:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Check your data.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Check your data.</p>
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		<title>By: MKR</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/16/wolfram-alpha-is-live/#comment-793928</link>
		<dc:creator>MKR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 14:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t think that&#039;s the sort of question this thing is meant to answer. It provides output from data based on a query. The objectivity depends on the methods used in the research that produced the data.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s the sort of question this thing is meant to answer. It provides output from data based on a query. The objectivity depends on the methods used in the research that produced the data.</p>
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		<title>By: Ivo Cerckel</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/16/wolfram-alpha-is-live/#comment-793921</link>
		<dc:creator>Ivo Cerckel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 14:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tax is theft, is that objective or subjective?

No, 
the thief does not come back periodically, 
nor does he pretend to be stealing in the public interest</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tax is theft, is that objective or subjective?</p>
<p>No,<br />
the thief does not come back periodically,<br />
nor does he pretend to be stealing in the public interest</p>
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		<title>By: MKR</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/16/wolfram-alpha-is-live/#comment-793868</link>
		<dc:creator>MKR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 13:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;What’s objective?&quot;

A = 2l + 2w is objective.

&quot;How much area is too much?&quot; is subjective.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;What’s objective?&#8221;</p>
<p>A = 2l + 2w is objective.</p>
<p>&#8220;How much area is too much?&#8221; is subjective.</p>
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		<title>By: Ivo Cerckel</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/16/wolfram-alpha-is-live/#comment-793778</link>
		<dc:creator>Ivo Cerckel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 12:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>“It clearly states that they want to collect and curate objective data only which limits the search range drastically”

What’s objective?

Yes, logic is an arcane science.

Censorship is not even a science, think.

Truth is ad-equation between the thing and the intellect (adaequatio rei et intellectus), said Thomas Aquinas.

A lot will depend, I think, on whether the various sources from which the search engine will calculate the results and give the answers will have been filtered,
that is,
whether some sites will have been blocked, like Google does,
or whether the intellect will be allowed to be freely led to the conclusions to which its inferences lead the intellect.

“It clearly states that they want to collect and curate objective data only which limits the search range drastically”

When they arrive at so-called evidences, most people substitute reasoning with faith or belief. 

Will the engine also do that, thereby refusing to think mathematically or rather refusing to think logically?

Next question is of course: How come the conclusions of the intellect, such as E=MC2, are applicable in or to reality? I don’t yet know the answer to that question but I am “only” 47 years old. And who knows, Wolfram Alpha may have the answer.

“It clearly states that they want to collect and curate objective data only which limits the search range drastically”</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“It clearly states that they want to collect and curate objective data only which limits the search range drastically”</p>
<p>What’s objective?</p>
<p>Yes, logic is an arcane science.</p>
<p>Censorship is not even a science, think.</p>
<p>Truth is ad-equation between the thing and the intellect (adaequatio rei et intellectus), said Thomas Aquinas.</p>
<p>A lot will depend, I think, on whether the various sources from which the search engine will calculate the results and give the answers will have been filtered,<br />
that is,<br />
whether some sites will have been blocked, like Google does,<br />
or whether the intellect will be allowed to be freely led to the conclusions to which its inferences lead the intellect.</p>
<p>“It clearly states that they want to collect and curate objective data only which limits the search range drastically”</p>
<p>When they arrive at so-called evidences, most people substitute reasoning with faith or belief. </p>
<p>Will the engine also do that, thereby refusing to think mathematically or rather refusing to think logically?</p>
<p>Next question is of course: How come the conclusions of the intellect, such as E=MC2, are applicable in or to reality? I don’t yet know the answer to that question but I am “only” 47 years old. And who knows, Wolfram Alpha may have the answer.</p>
<p>“It clearly states that they want to collect and curate objective data only which limits the search range drastically”</p>
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		<title>By: Martin</title>
		<link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/16/wolfram-alpha-is-live/#comment-793753</link>
		<dc:creator>Martin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 11:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The search engine is experiencing a heavy load currently.</description>
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