Introduction to Wolfram|Alpha by Stephen Wolfram
Wow, is all I can say! I am lookin gforward to using this bad boy May 18th!
The goal of this site is simple, we want to see what happens when you remove the branding from search engines.
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Continuations: Google +1 Needs a Graph
This is some interesting insight from Albert. At first I thought the Google +1 was an interesting idea, a little but of a little brother, tag-a-long move, but an interesting idea, at least as an experiment.
BUT, what Albert points out is VERY interesting. Google is admitting that implicit data signals are seemingly not enough anymore. Could the underlying signal of this move be that something might be rotten in the state of denmark? Probably not, but something is up, and it’s more than just a new product called +1.
Adding an explicit signal button with +1 is an admission that the implicit data sources are not enough. Clicking on +1 is saying to Google explicitly: I think this is interesting. Now the real challenge for Google will be making this an actually useful signal.
