Wolfram|Alpha just went live for the very first time, running all clusters.
This first run at testing Wolfram|Alpha in the real world is off to an auspicious start, although not surprisingly, we’re still working on some kinks, especially around logging.
While we’re still in the early stages of this long-term project, it is really gratifying to finally have the opportunity to invite you to participate in this project with us.
We are very grateful for the outpouring of support that we have received over the past two months. And for the enthusiastic interest that was shown this evening, especially in the last few minutes.
We got off to a late start, but so far, so good. We’ll stay up for as along as it makes sense to test the system with external access and gather the data we need. Then we’ll take Wolfram|Alpha offline for a while. We’ll continue testing through the weekend, opening access on occasion.
For those of you trying out the system for the first time, welcome! To anyone waiting in line due to capacity limits, thanks for your patience. We really appreciate it.
You can continue to watch us in action over on justin.tv.
Congrats for the effort.
While I haven’t been able to get Alpha generating any good/useful answers until the system was overloaded with questions, I will be waiting and trying again.
Good luck and all the best.
Congratulations on the launch! Wolfram|Alpha is amazing so far… I can’t wait to see where this will go in the future!
No time stamp on the blog posts, I’m confused to exactly when Wolfram went live..
was scheduled for 7PM US CDT.
Great job and good luck!!!!
Congrats! Looks like this could become a useful tool.
late.
Good news, everyone!
Congrats!!!! Amazing combo-breakkkkkkerr.
I’m Brazilian guy and i hope what de wolfram understand portuguese
I could test it with some questions and the answers was very good. In some cases it didn’t understand me, but I think it is gonna get better with time.
Greetings from Argentina!
Thank you for this invention. I am so eager to try it and again and again. Best Regards
Well done I feel I watched history tonight. This will change the way people learn and the way people will have to teach.
Jim
Great stuff. Looking forward to getting started with the API.
Well done, Wolfram Team. If this is the starting point, I’m intrigued to see what is possible in a year.
Query: Is Alpha in beta?
Very impressive presentation. Did you hire Tufte to consult on it? Taken as a whole, the information is well-conveyed and with more polish than any web presentation I’ve seen before.
You’ve set the bar quite high for every web designer who presents information.
I think the first improved will be the adding of links within the search so you can then link up all the data you’ve made in one continued search. rambling man, but I like it so far
Thanks for broadcasting the launch live.
Absolutely fantastic! Well done! I am very impressed. Thank you for making this possible.
Congratulations on the achievement!
I was pretty excited this evening and very impressed with the performance. Then I sat down and wrote a blog post. However, the more I wrote about it, the more I am worried …
http://drupalsliu.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/wolframalpha/
I hope Dr. Wolfram and the WolframAlpha team can look into the transparency and context issues seriously as scientists instead of internet entrepreneurs whose only goal is to take control of the world from Google. Think about our future scientists.
I am some what impressed but you need to improve on words like SEO, SEM , Internet Marketing , SMO etc etc
Can’t wait to see the power of this!
We shall see…
Great way to start. I am beginning to love this . Why can’t I see the interpenetration for Computational ?
You have created an amazing product, I really look forward to the continued development of Wolfram Alpha. Thanks for all your effort!
Well done. I watched the live feed. Of course there were glitches, but your results present an entirely different and needed twist on hard scientific data reporting and collection. Excellent effort thus far.
Another blog post about the site going live
http://buckycomputing.net/blog/wolfram-alpha-goes-live/
Guys i know it’s all hands on deck, but PLEASE take a moment to smile and relish in the moment.
This is the moment you have all worked so hard for, this is THE WORLD MEETS MATHEMATICA!
Kudos. stunning job guys the data WA is returning is totally insane i’m loving it!
Flash this comment up on the control center big screen for all the crew.
GO WA!
So far so good. I am looking forward to see how much it will improve in the coming months. Hopefully the Alpha team will be able keep up with most of the important requests.
Congratulations for the amazing achievement.
Site looks very good, but running very slowly. I hope it gets better after some, I guess it may
be because of the huge traffic that wolfgramalpha might be getting right now.
All the best for the future.
why after typing in “current users” did it first show a map / graphs and other details then
We’re sorry…
Wolfram|Alpha is currently
under extreme load
and can’t immediately handle your
request. Please try again later.
— The Wolfram|Alpha Team
then i refresh and now it says about electronics
Get this error, seems it is overloaded.
“Sorry, Wolfram Alpha is temporarily unavailable. Please try again.
Error: DataPacletFilter: Unable to get Connection Cannot create PoolableConnectionFactory (Too many connections)”
Error storing data: $Failed
Congratulations! Good job!
Don’t stop this project. This is one of the most important things happened in the last years.
Keep on.
Seems to be fascinating. Have to learn the “new way” but it works. Thanks for the Tool!
Good Luck!
This result display is confusion for query “1 lb kg”
Input interpretation:
1 lb (pound) | kg (kilogram)
Unit conversions:
1 lb : 2.205 lb
0.4536 kg : 1 kg
should I read horizontal or vertical? Is it a bug?
Great job, Wolfram|Alpha team! I’ve been playing with the system and can see its potential. Would be nice if it showed images related the item being queried, though. For example, I entered “iguana” but received mostly informational feedback but no visual “aids”, which would have been a nice touch. Aside from that, I loved the ability to compare different countries. The information provided was substantial and informative. Again, wonderful job!
Wow - congratulations to this project… did already some questions… I am really baffled.
Would have suspected that the system will be massive overloaded in the first day(s)
Sorry.
I am not as impressed as these people seem to be.
It is a great resource, I suppose for students. More of a teachers aid than a search site.
IMHO
Fred
Just tried some first queries - It will take some time to use it intuitivly
Good in GDPs, weather, stocks, statistics about locations, math.
But else?
It seems you got a lot of work to do!
Good luck
Congratulations on putting this up for the people! like the idea very much!
Great stuff!! Just loving wolfram, especially after loving this review : http://www.pluggd.in/wolframalpha-search-engine-review-297/
the launch was bigger than watching a man walk on the moon!!!
Congratulations from Austria!
Good luck for the future!
More about music and mathematics would be cool..
The community link on the front page do not work.
The Community link will be up soon! Thanks!
Accept my greetings for this excellent start! We can’t wait to have our API application approved to try integrating Comindwork project management software with Wolfram|Alpha powerful engine. I believe this has a huge potential for increasing knowledge work productivity in knowledge-intensive organizations.
Very nice. It seems to me that a potential limitation of the project as it scales in size is the need for Wolfram to provide and maintain the underlying databases that Alpha uses. Are there any plans to provide a mechanism for the “community” to add additional databases to the system - perhaps in a way analogous to a wiki? Alpha could of course caveat any results returned from unverified community data sources. This would seem to provide a means for Alpha to grow rapidly.
As much as I congratulate you and as much as I am stunned with the results of the machine, I must state, that the launch of Wolfram Alpha is a black friday for webstandards. You may be geniuses in math, thats for sure, but folks we’re livin in 2009 and there is hardly any reason to render text in images or not to use modern webstandars such as XHTML, MathML, Canvas, SVG to produce results accessable for everyone.
Please start migrating to W3C standards!
Very stunning. Respect to the team effort and Wolfram.
Great Job, congratulations!
Hello, this is the greatest search engine ever !!! GOOD JOB!!!
PLEASE CONSIDER to add “ROMANIAN” language too !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it is very important to have multilanguage search engine !!!!! thank you very much
Congrats, guys! I’ve been looking forward to this for the past… week or so, but it was really exciting. Frequent blogposts ftw and I also liked the screencast very much.
Good job documenting the launch. Sure there were technical glitches and stuff, but that’s all fine. It’s part of the process and it makes historic footage great. The moonlanding isn’t superbly Steadicammed either, but that’s not the point. It’s no art, it’s history. So good job!
I watched the live feed yesterday until 3am my time, but it was worth it
Just been trying Wolpha out, lots of great results, though I see there’s still a lot it needs. For example, when querying “Mozart”, it has no idea what I’m talking about, but I’m sure that’s something to come.
So keep up the good work!
from germany
very good job is going here .. how can I contribute for it ?
just let me know