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Bing taps Wolfram Alpha for improved search
MICROSOFT HAS TURNED TO Wolfram Alpha to help bolster its search results in a bid to try and eke out a bit more market share.
Bing will return Wolfram Alpha results in select areas across nutrition, health and advanced mathematics.
For instance when searching for a specific type of food or recipe, a tab will pop up containing nutritional information provided by Wolfram Alpha.
Similarly, mathematical queries will show results from Wolfram Alpha's computational knowledge engine.
At Wolfram Alpha's official blog, Schoeller Porter, technical development specialist in the Wolfram Partnerships Group wrote, "By using our API, Bing will be able to seamlessly access the tens of thousands of algorithms and trillions of pieces of data from Wolfram|Alpha, and directly incorporate the computations in its search results."
Wolfram Alpha opened up its codebase last month with the release of an API giving developers the ability to tap the engine for their own applications. The Vole is the first commercial customer to make use of the API.
The new engine created some stir when it first launched back in May, but its niche focus meant it met with mixed reviews. µ
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Finally, Microsoft is doing something different with its search engine than just emulate Google. Hopefully, this Alpha-improved search engine will be better than useless question-based search engines like Ask.com
We need to beat Google, let's make MSN Search!
(Didn't work)...we need to beat Google, let's buy Yahoo!
(Didn't work)...we need to beat Google (Earth), let's make "Microsoft Maps".
(Didn't work)...we need to beat Google, let's make Windows Mobile (being crushed by Android), and
We need to beat Google, lets steal Wolfram Alpha's code...
(etc.)
Also:
We need to beat Apple, let's make a Zune! (didn't work), and
We need to beat Sony, let's make an Xbox (kind of worked, too bad the Xboxes didn't work).
Microsoft...the rich, eternal-loser company.
Bing!
Microsoft please just make a plain text page search engine, like google.
Google's page is small and fast to load. Unlike MSN Search.
Hotmail - MS, it doesn't work with Outlook now, all I can see is my Inbox folder, none of my read emails are market as read etc. You idiot fcukers!
Outlook is meant to me MS's flagship email-calendar software, and a hotmail account was a perfect companion to that. MS had everyone locked in with that. Instead of taking advantage and building on this, they break the relationship. Total idiots.
Who are the idiots directing MS?
Fools, please rejoin Outlook and Hotmail features. Please add more features, like Google are doing with Wave, not go in the opposite direction.
Anyone else annoyed that Outlook and Hotmail don't work together as well any more?