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		vaksel on May 5, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wolfram Alpha and Google Faceoff Its getting kinda tiresome that everyone is trotting out wolframalpha as a Google killer. They aren't even in the same space. Google is the Chemistry Book, Wolfram Alpha is the table of the elements in the back of it.

cdibona on May 5, 2009 [–]

This kind of thing happens every 6 or so months, the journalists (if you can call them that) love a fight. It is all they know.

They seem to live in a world that only routes packets to the 'winner'

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