They could perhaps license their content to Google though. As Daniel already pointed out, Wolfram is a complement rather than a competitor of Google.

That is a really good way of putting it. Maybe Google will eventually allow “gadgets/widgets” to be displayed next to the search results, and the gadgets will be able to read the search parameters. Something like that would be cool.

Nice… some of those are pretty funny.

Also great easter eggs.

I was looking for those. I sorta assumed they were out there.

Also great easter eggs.
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They could perhaps license their content to Google though. As Daniel already pointed out, Wolfram is a complement rather than a competitor of Google.

However, the infrastructure is totally different. Wolfram is much higher maintenance than Google. By that I mean Wolfram requires a curator to input data into a database. Google is pretty much simply keyword-oriented, so it can bring up pages simply with an algorithm that reads time published, keywords, page visits, and other back-end information. So Google as it stands wouldn’t be able to add that much to Wolfram (in my opinion).

One problem even with Wolfram’s hard data, though, is exemplified by Ars Technica’s quote: “Data on my search result page indicated that, in 2003, global human activity led to 27 Gigatons of carbon dioxide emissions. But it also indicated that, in 2000, the US produced 40 Gigatons during cement production alone. One of these has got to be wrong, and Alpha gives you absolutely no way of finding out which …” (as quoted by Newsy)

So the morale of the story? Handle with care. I expect it to get much more useful as the feedback starts flowing, though.