wolfram alpha is the worst name for a search engine i've ever heard
it sounds like the name of a furry porn character
( Lightguy hail satan, Mon 18 May 2009, 22:21, archived)

It hasn't been very helpful with my test question either.
"Global population by timezone" and variants didn't bring any useful results, neither did trying to get it to do statistical tests on sets of numbers or even something as simple as "how many symphonies did Beethoven write?"

But I'm sure things will improve. The technology is young yet.
(MooCow_Byter, Mon 18 May 2009, 22:24, archived)

Asking "what are Brazil's chief imports?" does bring up a relevant suggested link,
but with all the fuss over its natural language capabilities you'd have thought it'd be able to usefully process simple questions.
(MooCow_Byter, Mon 18 May 2009, 22:28, archived)

It doesn't even know where in the world carmen san diego is
useless.
( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Mon 18 May 2009, 22:33, archived)

I asked it "What is the Matrix?" and it came out with a load of crap about eigenvectors.
Neo worked that one out 10 years ago!
(MooCow_Byter, Mon 18 May 2009, 22:38, archived)