Wolfram|Alpha Hard at Work Three Months After Launch
It’s been three months since Wolfram|Alpha launched as a search engine for structured data. But they haven’t just sat back and hoped WA took off. No, they’ve been hard at work attempting to improve upon their search offering.
Most of the work has centered around two things:
While this presents challenges, founder Stephen Wolfram sees the glass as half full.
“The good news is that there’s been very little that’s come through that wasn’t already somewhere on our to-do lists. They’re long lists. But we can now be confident that they’re good lists,” Wolfram wrote on the official WA blog.
And they’re already checking things off those lists. They’re understanding the linquistics problem better and have reduced the “fall-through rate” of misunderstood queries by 10%.
Here’s what else the WA team has been up to – all of this since launch:
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