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New Web tool WolframAlpha launches test run

Google rules the roost when it comes to Internet search and has easily brushed aside efforts by Yahoo!, Microsoft and others to knock it off its perch.

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created May 16, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 13




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Data sorting world record falls: Computer scientists break terabyte sort barrier in 60 seconds

Computer scientists from the University of California, San Diego broke "the terabyte barrier" - and a world record - when they sorted more than one terabyte of data in just 60 seconds. During this 2010 "Sort ...

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created Jul 27, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bing gains search market share, nears 10 percent

Microsoft's new Internet search engine Bing increased its share of the US search market in October, edging up half-a-point to nearly 10 percent, online tracking firm comScore said Tuesday.

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Microsoft brings more Web data to Bing results; teams up with WolframAlpha

(AP) -- Microsoft's Bing search service will pull more information and tools from other Web sites as the company tries to distinguish itself as part of its challenge to market leader Google.

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created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Google increasingly battles Facebook in search

(AP) -- Google has identified social networking sites like Facebook as growing competitors in search, a company spokesman said Monday.

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created May 25, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Review: Flaws in Web's much-touted WolframAlpha

(AP) -- When a free Web service called WolframAlpha launches in the coming days, the general public will get to try a "computational knowledge engine" that has had technology insiders buzzing because of its ...

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created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Wolfram Alpha 'Knowledge Engine' is Like a Modern Farmer's Almanac

(PhysOrg.com) -- Currently, there's a lot of hype and skepticism surrounding the latest "Google rival," a so-called search engine named Wolfram Alpha. In the near future, anyone with Internet access will be ...

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created May 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 5 weblog

Wolfram Alpha Could Answer Questions that Google Can't

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new search engine described as an "electronic brain" could make searching the Internet more intelligent. Called Wolfram Alpha, the search engine computes its own answers rather than looking ...

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created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (35) | comments 17 weblog


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