"Here are some data points and observations from Wolfram Alpha's pre-launch testing period May 15-17:
- During the weekend, Wolfram Alpha processed 13.7 million queries.
- Our request for feedback has elicited nearly 27,000 responses.
- Within minutes, there were queries from six continents.
- Queries were surprisingly diverse. People quickly moved from using the examples page on the site to using their own inputs.
- Twitter users discovered that Wolfram Alpha could immediately provide information on a small California earthquake that happened Sunday.
- Finding Wolfram Alpha Easter eggs has already become a popular topic on Mashable, the social media news guide.
- Facebook users have been helping each other suggest and correct inputs."
And this is why Wolfram Alpha is significant:
"Fifty years ago," said Stephen Wolfram, the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, "when computers were young, people assumed that they'd be able to ask a computer any factual question, and have it compute the answer. I'm happy to say that we've successfully built a system that delivers knowledge from a simple input field, giving access to a huge system, with trillions of pieces of curated data and millions of lines of algorithms. Wolfram Alpha signals a new paradigm for using computers and the web."
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