Comments | anti_gravitas: Interesting angle to the Bing/Wolfram Alpha team-up.

sensaes in anti_gravitas

Interesting angle to the Bing/Wolfram Alpha team-up.

Nov 12, 2009 09:50

If nothing else, it drags popularized health issues straight into the competitive search engine arena:

'The Wolfram team said the new partnership with Bing would allow Microsoft to access "tens of thousands of algorithms and trillions of pieces of data" to incorporate into its results. Microsoft said that the nutritional and fitness data in ( Read more... )

techie goodness, fuck you google, links

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tungsten? dativesingular November 12 2009, 10:05:24 UTC

Maybe it's because I'm still feeling the Size Acceptance glow, but the idea of having nutritional info in my web searches rankles more than a fair bit.

Re: tungsten? sensaes November 12 2009, 10:08:31 UTC

Er, you do realise that it's going to depend upon what you're searching for?

Entering "knitted socks", for example, isn't going to produce a little box at the bottom of the page outlining the nutritional and vitamin content of a standard pair of Argyles.

Re: tungsten? dativesingular November 12 2009, 10:15:37 UTC

But wool is so tasty? (Yes, I'm secretly a Siamese Cat)

Re: tungsten? sensaes November 12 2009, 10:17:44 UTC

Tasty, but not necessarily good for you.

It's basically the Doner Kebab-flavour Pot Noodle of the fabrics world.