Wolfram Alpha
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WolframAlpha is an online knowledge engine developed by Wolfram Research that has been around since 2009. It is offered as an online service that answers queries by computing answers from externally sourced data.
Key facts
- Website.name
- WolframAlpha
- Website.logo
- Wolfram Alpha December 2016.svg
- Website.caption
- WolframAlpha is based on the computational platform Mathematica, written by British scientist Stephen Wolfram in 1988.
- Website.commercial
- Yes
- Website.type
- Answer engine
- Website.registration
- Optional
- Website.owner
- WolframAlpha LLC
- Website.author
- Wolfram Research
- Website.programming_language
- Wolfram Language
- Website.current_status
- Active
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Website
- Owned by
- Wolfram Research
- Country of origin
- United States
- Creator
- Stephen Wolfram
- Developer
- Wolfram Research
- Official website
- www.wolframalpha.com
- Image
- Alphawithmath.PNG
- Motto
- Making the world’s knowledge computable
- Has use
- question answering
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- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/wolframalpha
- Commons category
- Wolfram Alpha
- programmed in
- Wolfram Language
- official blog URL
- blog.wolframalpha.com
- inception
- 2009-05-00
- Alexa rank
- 1613
- work available at URL
- www.wolframalpha.com
- author name string
- Wolfram Alpha LLC
- title
- Wolfram|Alpha: Making the world’s knowledge computable
- language of work or name
- English language
- social media followers
- 15200
- terms of service URL
- www.wolframalpha.com/termsofuse
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Usage
- References
- Footnotes
- External links
WolframAlpha is an online knowledge engine developed by Wolfram Research that has been around since 2009. It is offered as an online service that answers queries by computing answers from externally sourced data.
== History == Launch preparations for WolframAlpha began on May 15, 2009, at 7:00 pm CDT with a live broadcast on Justin.tv. The plan was to publicly launch the service a few hours later. However, there were issues due to extreme load. The service officially launched on May 18, 2009, receiving mixed reviews.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wolfram Alpha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.