Wolfram Alpha launches to mixed reviews

[dhilipkumar]

Wolfram Alpha launches to mixed reviews

"One of the keys to Google's or Wikipedia's success is accessibility," the user wrote. "I love the results of the machine, but please get to web standards! Use XHTML, MathML, XML with Stylesheets and SVG/Canvas Object for results rendering. Rendered text [and] images are so 1997."

Another user complained that pages do not display properly in Internet Explorer 6, while a third said that the site is "promising but maddeningly incomplete".

The engine even managed to have a stab at the more difficult question, 'how many fish in the sea?', estimating a total of 2x10^9 metric tonnes, and detailing its calculations.

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