Online Diagramming and Flowcharting Tool evri.com - search less. understand more. Newssift.com Wolfram Alpha Releases First Major Update Here's another thing that'll make Wolfram Alpha more fun than Google: updates. When some aspect of Google's search gets updated, we don't necessarily notice it, and it's not usually easy to make an ordered list of the exact updates that happened. However, Wolfram Alpha is not a search engine; it only handles the data that was fed to it, and thus its data set (and the algorithms for its manipulation) will get updated every once in a while. So, the first major update to Wolfram Alpha is here, and the list of changes and improvements is quite long. Here it is in its entirety: * Additional linguistic forms for many types of data and questions * More comparisons of composite properties (e.g. Out of these, the first one is probably most important; the fact that Wolfram Alpha now understands more linguistic forms means it'll understand you better, and thus provide better results overall. More Wolfram Alpha Resources from Mashable:
Google's Wonder Wheel Experiment, and More Google’s Wonder Wheel Experiment, and MoreBy Tony Ruscoe & Philipp Lenssen Google is running an experiment in their search results, apparently shown to a portion of their users. What happens is that on the search results, say for the query comic books, a link in the top blue bar will read “Show options...”. Click it, and a side bar full of options expands to the left. The options include some known experiments, plus things I didn’t see so far. Here are some screenshots of the process (I’ve added a circle in the first screen showing the link that gets you started): One of the most interesting experiment features is the “wonder wheel.” If you want to try out this experiment yourself, that’s possible. javascript:void(document.cookie="PREF=ID=4a609673baf685b5:TB=2:LD=en:CR=2:TM=1227543998:LM=1233568652:DV=AA:GM=1:IG=3:S=yFGqYec2D7L0wgxW;path=/; domain=.google.com"); Below is my screengrab (available on YouTube and as WMV): >> More posts Advertisement