It also suggested (as a possible alternative) Brooklyn, Ohio. The best guess that Wolfram|Alpha was able to come up with was Brooklyn, Connecticut. I live in Brooklyn, New York - a place that is, I believe, not unknown to either mapmakers or movie directors - and so I typed "Brooklyn" into the search engine. One thing that the company suggests you try as a test of the engine is to type in your home town. Too many times, the simplest query (such as "kidney cancer") brought up the message "Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input." I tested Wolfram|Alpha about five days before it was set to launch, and it didn't take much to find its limits. Because much of the information that appears in its pages is apparently derived from "Wolfram|Alpha curated data," there is a lot - a whole lot - it can't find or understand. While it's fun to play with Wolfram|Alpha, unless you're a mathematician or a scientist you're not going to get a great deal out of it in its current iteration. And typing in "Cheerios" got me more information than I needed to know about the cereal's nutritional components. Typing in "ISDN" brought up various comparative speeds and the time needed to transfer 100 kilobytes of data. It lays out the data in easy-to-read, well-formatted pages that include a variety of charts and graphs.įor example, when I typed in "Hubble," it came up with some interesting facts about the Hubble Space Telescope, including its current position and original launch date. What's cool about it? If you're of a scientific bent, this could be a great resource, once Wolfram Research beefs up its informational sources. For example, if you want to compare statistics about several different cities, you type in their names and find out that, say, Tokyo has several thousand more people than New York. What does it do? Wolfram|Alpha gathers data based on your search terms and presents you with the answers in a well-formatted structure, using charts, graphs and other visual aids.
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