Wolfram Alpha knows about your domain

MOGmartin

May 22, 2009 at 2:32pm

Nice catch, Im off to check ours now as well, I particularly like the navigational image preview!

Adam Tudor

May 22, 2009 at 3:12pm

How accurate are the web statistics?

venkat

May 22, 2009 at 3:54pm

It does also knows about subdomains too as my blog is blogspot blog ,but it showing wrong alexa rank for my blog.

Brent

May 22, 2009 at 9:34pm

I hear the tech media saying that search engines really just come down to preference in this video http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2009/05/california_voters_reject_budge.html, but when you see an engine like Wolfram Alpha it underscores my belief that in the 21st century, being able to manage and sort information is what will lead you to success.

Albi

May 23, 2009 at 8:23pm

I had heard, but not the possibility to try. Simple and effective

Black Sand

May 23, 2009 at 9:10pm

It is cool staff

Jeet

May 24, 2009 at 3:55am

@Patrick – Supercool. I really like the internal link structure (as seen by WA)

tabsfiroz

May 25, 2009 at 5:45am

Like the way the element hierarchy is shown… Thanks Patrick tried it out as soon as I read it here

Glen Allsopp

May 25, 2009 at 11:24pm

Hi Patrick,

Just a quick question to see if you have ever seen search results like this:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=personal+development+books&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a

Check the books images included in the results for a random site.

P.S. Sorry for being off topic, I’m on a 7 day rule of no email so feel free to delete this

Patrick Altoft

May 26, 2009 at 7:47am

I don’t see any images……

Reply

Dan

May 26, 2009 at 11:12am

Hmm. Dubious stats for several domains I work on and have access to detailed analytics for.

The numbers may be sourced from Alexa, but cross-referencing shows a difference of 4,000 places in site rank reported by Alexa vs Wolfram Alpha.

I really like what Wolfram Alpha is striving to achieve but its current half-way state between search engine and encyclopedic resource is a little odd.

Glen Allsopp

May 26, 2009 at 2:56pm

Thanks for the reply

Here is a screenshot for you: http://i40.tinypic.com/qqsh36.jpg

Will

May 28, 2009 at 8:50pm

Bah, they need to stop legitimizing Alexa. They should pull the stats data from Quantcast.