Wolfram Alpha: The next Google killer (that also won’t work)

Wolfram Alpha. The next Google killer. The guest blogger at TechCrunch says, and I quote verbatim, “OMG!! PONIES!!1!!” So, y’know… Ponies it must be.

OK. Computational knowledge. Cool.

Cellular Automata. Cool.

But we’re missing a couple of major points that I think will help to put this in perspective. Continue reading