You call my post nonsense, because you were not able to find this specific bit of information. You said I could not find 5 answers that weren’t in examples in blogs. Let’s see:

1.
“Circumference of earth in meters”
W|A gives me
4.007504×10^7 meters
Plus additional conversions in other units (miles, km, light seconds)

2.
“Birthdate of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart”
January 27, 1756
Along with other date formats, as well as time that has passed since then in years, months, weeks, days. Also sunrise/sunset information of that day.

3.
“Distance from New York, New York to London, England”
3468 miles
Along with conversion to other units and direct travel times at speeds of sound, light, and aircraft.

4.
You’ll like this one:
“Tetrahydrocannabinol”
Gives me chemical formulas in several formats, 3D model, chemical properties, etc

5.
“Area of Galapagos Islands”
2663 sq.mi
Along with the areas of individual islands and conversions in different units.

6.
“Life expectancy of Nigeria”
46.9 years (2009 estimate)
Along with other facts about the country, such as population, population density, median age.

The message to take from all this is that we’re approaching a time in which we will use different search tools to find answers to different types of queries. Google or Bing or Yahoo! couldn’t dream of giving this kind of detailed summarized results to these queries.

For other types of queries, of course, traditional search engines have the upper hand.

For real-time searching it’s hard not to go with Twitter, although Google does a good job of keeping indexed data up to date.

On the day that Wolfram Alpha was announced, Google announced Google Options (I think that’s what is was called) on April 29.

Then on the day that Microsoft announced Bing, Google announces Wave.

I guess Google likes to steal other company’s spotlight. Very telling about the odd mindset that is Google.

Why isn’t there a preference in Chrome for Bing?

And why does Firefox favors Google? Probably because Google pays it money that accounts for 85% of its budget. So Firefox and Mozilla are not impartial.

If Bing delivers better comparisons and results in their searches, users will increasingly being shifting from Google to Bing for their “shopping” related searches. This will cause a shift in advertising dollars from Google to Microsoft as well. Now we all know where 99% of Google’s revenues are derived from.

My 2 cents is that Microsoft is literally trying to steal only the profitable segment of Google’s search business and leave them all the “crap” traffic which does not monetize. Whether they will succeed is another story. But it is for this reason they are prepared to invest $100 million on advertising.

I disagree, I say, it’s not a fair comparison because Bing is a search engine and Wolfram is some kinda sophisticated mathematical quantitative derivitive analysis algorithmic calculus floating point quantum mechanical blah blah blah….

It is a good enough engine with some great features. Yes, it needs some tuning and improvements abut unless you are a Googler, your interest should be that Bing will gain market share and that Google will have some competition.

先頃リリースされた２つの新しい検索エンジン。
Wolfram AlphaとBing。

注目度合いは、先行したWolfram Alphaはすでに下火（Bingが出て来たからもあるかも）、
Bingはまだ注目度を保ち続けて…