Bing – WolframAlpha: Computational Knowledge Comes to the Decision Engine

Nov 12, 2009 by Abbas

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Bing and Wolfram

WolframAlpha and Bing come together to bring some interesting search experience for Bing users. WolframAlpha is one of the most advanced computational engine on the web which converts queries to graphs and numbers.

For example one could simply compare a number of US states to see crime rate in each state.

I ran a query (crime chicago / new york /detroit ) to see the crime rate in 3 US states and I got the following results.

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Though the results shown on the site are not the latest it does give you a good idea of the criminal activities going on in each of these states.

This is the kind of experience Bing is trying to offer to its users as a decision engine.

To start with, Bing is targeting its services at the health conscious and students. Soon you will be able to nutrition related and math related queries and get processed results from Bing.

For example if you want to see how many calories does each serving of cheese fries has just type in 200 g Cheese Fries or Cheese Fries to see the results.

Click here to read the announcement and see more examples of the kind of results you can see on Bing in the coming days. Also visit this link to know how WolframAlpha works!

For readers who don’t know what WolframAlpha is or haven’t used it yet, this is a good time to learn more about what it does and how to use it.

Following is 1st of 2 videos introductory videos of WolframAlpha