{"id":4233,"date":"2009-05-16T23:00:49","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T03:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=4233"},"modified":"2009-05-16T23:00:49","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T03:00:49","slug":"wolfram-alpha-still-havent-found-what-im-looking-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wolfram-alpha-still-havent-found-what-im-looking-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolfram Alpha: still haven\u2019t found what I\u2019m looking for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wolfram Alpha<\/a> is a new search engine that promises to provide fewer, more precise answers to searches.<\/p>\n<p>Ever eager find trivia more quickly, I decided to give it a try. I quickly discovered that it has a unique feature: it consistently hangs Firefox. Undeterred, I tried it with Internet Explorer; it invited me to enter a question, so I tried: \u201cwhat is the population of Oakville, Ontario\u201d whereupon it enlightened me with the populations of both Oakville Missouri and Ontario, New York.<\/p>\n<p>The Alpha is in the name for a reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolfram Alpha is a new search engine that promises to provide fewer, more precise answers to searches. Ever eager find trivia more quickly, I decided to give it a try. I quickly discovered that it has a unique feature: it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wolfram-alpha-still-havent-found-what-im-looking-for\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[303],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}