Report: Wolfram Alpha to offer API for data feeds

SF weather (Credit: Screenshot by Dave Rosenberg/CNET) Wolfram Alpha, the “computational knowledge engine” developed by Mathematica, will soon allow its dynamic search results to be queried and mashed up in a variety of new ways. According to the Guardian, Wolfram will be opening its curated data to be queried via an application programming interface, or [...]

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Bing strikes licensing deal with Wolfram Alpha

Bing will start using Wolfram Alpha’s data in search results following a licensing deal. (Credit: Screenshot by Tom Krazit/CNET) Microsoft’s Bing search engine is getting a little help from a very smart friend. Wolfram Alpha and Bing have reached a licensing deal that allows Bing to present some of the specialized scientific and computational content [...]

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