Wolfram Alpha sucks

[benlehman]

Twice in the last day I've thought "oh, I have a question that's perfect for Wolfram Alpha, 'cause it's all analytical." Twice, it has totally failed me.

The first question was about net-grain exporting nations. It not only failed to answer my question, it didn't understand net, grain, export, or nation. Google answered my question with link #3.

The second question was about converting US print sizes to international print size. Again, nothing. Again, google answered my question relatively quickly.

This is the google killer? Altavista would be better.

Comments

[opticalbinary.livejournal.com]

I gave up on it as a google-killer when I found that it will tell me all of the nutritional info for an average tomato, but nothing when I ask for the nutritional info for an average human arm.

[benlehman.livejournal.com]

See! This.

Still, at least you got something out of it. I literally could not get any answer at all.

yrs--
--Ben

[opticalbinary.livejournal.com]

I also asked it if the TV show Bones was canceled, and no dice, which was why I decided to try a question which was more scientific.

W|A

[(Anonymous)]

I too was unimpressed. W.A. failed to provide ANY information on even the most basic inputs.