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Thursday, January 21, 2010

WolframAlpha vs. Google

1. English words containing the letters "eue": This one is a little tricky, Google's first listing was morewords.com. Morewords had the best answer, but WolframAlpha was quicker and listed words that had eue, but not in order

query: all english words containing the letters eue
Answer: Feued, queue, queued, queueing, queuer, queuers, queues

2. How much potassium in 4.7 oz of banana? WolframAlpha was the quickest and most accurate.

query: how much potassium in 4.7 ox of banana
Answer: 477mg

3. How old was Barack Obama on the day you were born? WolframAlpha was the quickest and easiest.

query: what year was obama born. then obama's birthdate - my birthdate
Answer: 7 years, 5 months, 4 days

4.Date and time of the next total solar eclipse in Eugene? WolframAlpha was the quickest and easiest.

query: when is the next total solar eclipse in eugene, oregon
Answer: 4:52 pm PDT | Sunday, May 20, 2012 (2.328 years from now)

5. What is the minimum and maximum price of google stock since it went public?
Once again WolframAlpha was the quickest and easiest.

query: google stock history
Answer: minimum: $ 100.01 Sep 3, 2004 maximum: $ 741.79 Nov 6, 2007

6. Link an image of the barcode for UPC 01234567890. WolframAlpha again the quickest and easiest.

query: barcode upc 01234567890



7. How many vertices does an icosahedron have? WolframAlpha again the quickest and easiest.

query: icosahedron vertex
Answer: 12

8. Distance from Eugene to Tokyo? WolframAlpha (beginning to see a pattern)

query: distance between eugene oregon and tokyo
Answer: 4886 miles

9. Average Oregon income per capita? WolframAlpha

query: average oregon income per capita
Answer: $31,930 per year

10. What is the morse code for your name. WolframAlpha

query: morse code for marquee
Answer:
-- -- M
* -- A
* -- * R
-- -- * -- Q
* * -- U
* E
* E

Differences in Search Engines

USS Yorktown NT: Bing and Google listed wired.com first and wikipedia second, while Baidu search results were reversed. The third listing was different in all three search engines.

Google China Censorship: Bing had various news stories at the top, wikipedia, then googlewatch. Google had googleblog, guardia.co.uk, then wikipedia. Baidu
39ipol.biz, cn.reuters, them blog.163.com

Tiananmen Square: Bing listed wikipedia on the massacre, wikipedia tiananmnen square, then bloomberg. Google had wikipedia on the protests, travelchinaguide.com, and then image results. Baidu interestingly, had nothing on the massacre. vsearch.cctv.com, flag raising space.tv.cctv.com, story about two foreigners stabbed recently.

Taiwan Independence: All three search engines listed wikipedia first. Bing had listings about foreign policy www.fpif.org then antiwar.com. Google listed Taiwan Independence Movement wufi.org.tw and then news einnews.com while Baidu's stories were e.3edu.net US not supporting the movement, and tanghu.net combating the movement.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Circle Track Racing Blog

My new favorite blog is http://blogs.circletrack.com/index.html. I find it interesting because I love racing! My daugther races a limited late model in Washington, she was picked for the NASCAR 2010 Combine for their diversity program. So I like to follow all the latest racing news!

Brea Lopez Washington Racing Star

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My first Blog

I am really excited to be participating in my new classes this term. I am on my way to obtaining a degree in web programming!