Wolfram Alpha Vs Google Squares
by EkosDeux on Jun.03, 2009, under Reviews
I was reading an article today that said google was releasing Squared… “The Wolfram Alpha killer”. Immediately I was intrigued by this declaration, and read a couple of other blogs. I thought to myself, “If this is supposed to be a Wolfram Alpha killer… Let me test it”. As an engineering student I thought of a couple of things that Wolfram Alpha can do, and compared two stocks. The results were below…
First, I wanted the integration of Cos(x)… Easy enough, but unfortunately Squared could not perform the operation. Winner= Wolfram Alpha
Second, I asked the gravitational constant. Simple enough, just spit out a number, but squared built some knowledge boxes and failed to provide the answer at all. Winner= Wolfram Alpha
Last, but not least. A small comparison, but squared did not comply. Winner= Wolfram Alpha
Conclusion, Google Squared is a good data gathering site. Wolfram Alpha is a computational site capable of performing mathematical operations. The two should be in separate categories as Squared has a long way to go before it can even be considered a contender. I know these test were a little biased, but I wanted to see if it could truly kill Wolfram Alpha. What are you thoughts?
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June 3rd, 2009 on 7:11 pm
My thought is that if you wanted to show that the two are completely unrelated, I think you succeeded.
If you wanted to show that Squared has a long way to go before it’s a contender to Alpha – well, maybe that’s true, but the vice versa is as true.
The actual truth is that they are, indeed, unrelated, and just like Wolfram Alpha was being called “the Google killer” by random bloggers before it’s release, now Google Squared is being called “the Wolfram killer” by the same random bloggers.
I think these bloggers just have fun being silly.
June 3rd, 2009 on 7:17 pm
I agree completely. I actually thought Google had built themselves a new Wolfram Alpha.