Comments on: Who’s afraid of the Wolfram search? http://www.clayfox.com/2009/05/05/whos-afraid-of-the-wolfram-search/ Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:36:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sessie http://www.clayfox.com/2009/05/05/whos-afraid-of-the-wolfram-search/comment-page-1/#comment-27562 Sessie Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:13:46 +0000 http://www.clayfox.com/?p=277#comment-27562 I am convinced that googel is it.... I am convinced that googel is it….

]]> By: i'drathernotsay http://www.clayfox.com/2009/05/05/whos-afraid-of-the-wolfram-search/comment-page-1/#comment-22224 i'drathernotsay Wed, 06 May 2009 14:52:23 +0000 http://www.clayfox.com/?p=277#comment-22224 I come at an analysis of its prospects from a different angle, one that may not interest your readers as much but still has some relevance: will it provide a useful answer to a broad enough collection of questions such that it can draw an audience large enough to allow it to pay for itself? I suspect the answer is no. Many have tried to displace google as that default oracle at delphi. From a more simplistic point of view, it reminds me of the original yahoo versus google approaches: humans/guided/vetted results from a smaller data pool versus sophisticated inference derived from the entire corpus. Inference won handily the last time... I come at an analysis of its prospects from a different angle, one that may not interest your readers as much but still has some relevance: will it provide a useful answer to a broad enough collection of questions such that it can draw an audience large enough to allow it to pay for itself? I suspect the answer is no. Many have tried to displace google as that default oracle at delphi.

From a more simplistic point of view, it reminds me of the original yahoo versus google approaches: humans/guided/vetted results from a smaller data pool versus sophisticated inference derived from the entire corpus. Inference won handily the last time…

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