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- Microsoft enhances Bing with Wolfram Alpha support
- Microsoft is partnering with search rival Wolfram Alpha and rolling out a number of revamps to its Bing portal in an effort to better compete with market leader Google. The news follows Microsoft's recent search deals with Facebook and Twitter and comes as research shows Bing’s share of the...
- Articles 2009-11-11
- Wolfram Alpha signs deal with Bing - Rumour
- Computational search engine Wolfram Alpha is supplying data to Microsoft’s Bing search engine as part of a licensing deal, according to online reports. The claims seem to contradict analyst predictions that Wolfram would tie-up with Google. Unlike conventional search engines,...
- Articles 2009-08-20
- Should You Try Searching with Wolfram Alpha?
- Surely by now you've heard about Wolfram Alpha, a revolutionary search engine that doesn't just aggregate Web sites which appear to keyword match your input, but instead uses expert systems to actually answer the question you ask. The real question -- and one Wolfram Alpha couldn't answer I tried asking...
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- Google Under Fire: Four Ways Search Giant is Vulnerable
- Google stock is soaring back toward $500 -- double from a year ago -- even though it faces new resistance and competition in online media, advertising and tech. While it remains the dominant search engine with nearly 60 percent global market share, Google is confronted by growing risks elsewhere. The...
- Blog posts 2009-10-06
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- Microsoft Bing Search Engine Incorporates Wolfram Alpha, Local News
- Microsoft announced new features to Bing, its search engine, on Nov. 11 including localized news and weather, an expanded video page, and search results from Wolfram Alpha, a "computational engine" designed to provide users with a definitive--and often numerical--answer to a search query. Although Wolfram Alpha specializes in offering answers...
- News items 2009-11-11
- Wolfram Alpha's iPhone App Launches: Lots of Power, But at a High Price
- Quite a bit ahead of schedule, Wolfram Alpha's iPhone app appeared in the iTunes App Store today. The app, which costs $49.99, gives users full access to Wolfram Alpha's capabilities and greatly improves on the speed and ergonomics of Wolfram Alpha's mobile site. The company is targeting...
- News items 2009-10-18
- Microsoft's Bing signs deal with Wolfram Alpha
- Microsoft's Bing search engine is getting a little help from a very smart friend. Wolfram Alpha - the recently launched 'computational knowledge engine' - and Bing have reached a licensing deal that allows Bing to present some of the specialised scientific and computational content that Wolfram Alpha generates, according to...
- News items 2009-08-24
- Bing fall update announced: Wolfram|Alpha, weather, more
- Hot on the heels of the updates to Bing Maps, Videos, and Reference, Bing made some more announcements today, as part of a "major release", to be rolled out over the coming weeks. Most noticeable is the announcement of a partnership with Wolfram|Alpha to use their APIs...
- News items 2009-11-11
- Wolfram Alpha finally added to Bing
- Microsoft has announced that its partnership with Wolfram Alpha is about to come to fruition with news that the computational knowledge engine's data is to be added to Bing this week. The first signs of a link-up between the two search newbies happened back in August ,...
- News items 2009-11-12
- Google Makes World Bank Data More Discoverable: Takes a Swipe at Wolfram Alpha and Bing
- Google just announced that it now uses public data from the World Bank to display graphs for queries like "children per woman in brazil " or " internet users in the united states ." To do so, Google makes uses of the World Bank's public API ....
- News items 2009-11-11
- Microsoft's Bing in Wolfram Alpha link-up
- Wolfram Alpha, the computational knowledge engine, is set for a major boost with news that some of its content is to feature within Microsoft's Bing search engine.Although the link-up hasn't been clarified by either company, TechCrunch is reporting that a deal is already in place for Bing to host a...
- News items 2009-08-24
- Bing Adds Wolfram Alpha, Hover Preview
- The Bing features just keep rolling in. On Tuesday, Microsoft announced new map enhancements for the Google challenger, Wednesday we heard about the company bringing MSN Videos under the Bing umbrella, and now the company is announcing several more capabilities, including Wolfram Alpha integration for health statistics search, more Hover...
- News items 2009-11-11
- Wolfram Alpha, Unemployment, and the Future of Economic Data
- Donald Marron submits: I’ve received a number of helpful responses to my post about the strengths and weaknesses of Google’s efforts to transform data on the web. Reader DD, for example, reminded me that I ought to run the same test on Wolfram Alpha, which I briefly mentioned in my...
- External links 2009-07-10
- Bing Integrates Results from Wolfram Alpha
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Ever since Microsoft MSFT launched its Bing search engine last May, there’s been buzz that it’s been talking with Wolfram Alpha to license some of its search data. In August, I was able to confirm that a deal had indeed been struck between...
- External links 2009-11-11
- Wolfram Alpha: Not Quite Prime-Time
- The day I was born in Detroit, Michigan, the sun rose at 5:54 a.m. and it later set at 7:12 p.m. for a daylight duration of 13 hours and 18 minutes. There was a waning crescent moon that night over a city of some 1.85 million souls, which is roughly...
- Blog posts 2009-05-18
- Google Founder's Comments Aim to Ruffle Wolfram Alpha's Feathers
- Andy Beal submits: ZDNet’s Larry Digman suspects Google’s GOOG Sergey Brin is looking over his shoulder at the start-up Wolfram Alpha. by Andy Beal
- External links 2009-05-09
- Google Squared Makes Wolfram Alpha Look Sexy
- Andy Beal submits: While Bing’s MSFT busy launching its new decision engine and Wolfram Alpha tries to wow us with its computational prowess, Google GOOG has publicly launched Google Squared. Previewed back in May, Google Squared is “an experimental search tool that collects facts from the...
- External links 2009-06-03
- Microsoft Adds Wolfram Alpha Data To Bing
- Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is partnering with Wolfram Alpha to add structured data from the search startup to the search results on Bing. Microsoft announced the relationship today, as part of what it is calling the “first major release” of Bing, since it unveiled the new search engine in late...
- External links 2009-11-11
- Wolfram iPhone App Improves Upon Site Experience
- There's a way in which the just-released iPhone version of Wolfram Alpha makes more sense than the web version. The web version suggests a Google-like general search engine, which it is not; it's a "computational" or "fact engine" with a more limited range of use cases. It does what it does well...
- News items 2009-10-19
- Microsoft's Week Included Bing 2.0, Exchange Server 2010
- Microsoft launched a handful of new initiatives for both consumers and businesses this week. In addition to Exchange Server 2010, the new version of its messaging and collaboration platform, Microsoft also added features to Bing, including a more robust video page and search results from Wolfram Alpha, a computational engine...
- News items 2009-11-15
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