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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Firstrade

Firstrade: Online Brokerage Firm

Simple and affordable. For you. For the casual and serious investor alike. One of the lower charging online brokers. 10,000 types of mutual funds offered.

Firstrade: Online Brokerage Firm

This is a great online only place for early investors. It is cheap, it is easy. They don't ask for a minimum amount in the thousands of dollars before you can start investing.

The site is very easy to navigate. It scores high on functionality. Firstrade does stocks, bonds, mutual funds. Many reviewers have ranked it above Schwab, Ameritrade and Etrade.

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Wolfram Apha Is Cool

Wolfram Alpha Approaches 100 Million Queries Mashable

Google is a search engine. Wolfram Alpha is an answer engine. Microsoft is a desktop company. Google is an internet company. Google is a search engine. Facebook is a social site.

Fractals: Apple, Windows 95, Netscape, Google, Facebook, Twitter

Wolfram Alpha is an answer engine. It is not even trying to compete with Google, but it is already a niche king.

Content Is Queen, Marketing Is Princess

Yahoo's boast of wanting to "kill those 10 blue lines" is on the vacant side. Microsoft wanting to rename and remarket an old search engine is not exactly challenging: where's the innovation? But Wolfram Alpha does kill those "10 blue lines." That is its strength and weakness.

100 million queries? Come on. That is prime real estate already. And the site was selling ad space before it launched. Smart. A sound answer engine and a sound business model: what else do you need to fuel growth?

Google Is Working On Search

It has a small database for now. But that will change as it makes more money and has more resources. But it is good enough now to make good money now.

Wolfram Alpha is not a Google challenger, I don't think so. But what if it were? Look at how fast it hit 100 million queries. That might be the real news. Google, be awake, be very awake.

https://twitter.com/paramendra/status/1908944676

You know how you can watch a video clip on YouTube, and then you can get the code to embed that clip on to your blog? I wish this answer engine had a similar share/embed appendage.

But I guess you can always just plain link: New York.

http://www.wolframalpha.com

In The News

Hyped-up Wolfram Alpha gets delta-minus from me New Zealand Herald

Wolfram Alpha: A new way to ask Web for answers Orlando Sentinel

A computational knowledge engine for factual queries Hindu

Wolfram Alpha is the new Wolfram Alpha, not the new Google Pandia
Website of the Week — Wolfram Alpha Voice of America

Wolfram Alpha doesn't impress me FierceContentManagement

Wolfram Alpha won't ask and won't tell ZDNet

Wolfram Alpha and its architecture of failure CNET News
Sizing up Google's new search rivals VNUNet.com

Wolfram Alpha asks searching questions of the web Financial Times

New Search Engines Show Companies Haven't Given Up Fighting Giants findingDulcinea

Too many searches, not enough results GulfNews
Wolfram Alpha gets supercomputer boost CNET News

Search Engine Wolfram Alpha Focuses on Great Answers -- Not Movie ... PC World

Wolfram Alpha to Run On Supercomputers PC Magazine

Wolfram Alpha has a blog! ZDNet
Wolfram Alpha shows data in a way Google can't CNET News