Seems like everyone inside and outside the industry has pegged Wolfram Alpha as the next Google killer – you know, like Cuil. That really turned out well for the prognosticators, no?
It seems like every new engine with any kind of a backstory is going to be a Google killer. Hell, Twitter added a search function and [...]
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Wolfram Alpha = Wikipedia killer?
May 19th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: Google · Google sucks · twitter · win · wolfram alpha
White House comes to Twitter for Economic Advice?
March 6th, 2009 1 Comment
As cool a product as Twitter has, is talking to a business that has no monetization other than venture capital funding about how to fix the economy really a good sign?
I think Evan Williams’ own tweet on the topic (as seen on Silicon Valley Insider) says it all:
Also, I didn’t mean for today to become [...]
Twitter is not a search engine
March 6th, 2009 6 Comments
I’ll confess, I don’t understand this new twitter-as-search-engine meme. In my opinion anyone who tries to tell you otherwise has either drank too deeply of the kool-aid 140 characters at a time, is trying to get you to fund it or is trying to convince Google to buy it (so that they can break that, too). [...]
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