Why would anyone pay £29.99 for an iPhone app when a free browser based version, that was almost exactly the same, is available free of charge? Well, they wouldn’t. Trouble is Wolfram Alpha has just cottoned on to that fact and ditched its iPhone-friendly webpage to steer you towards its app instead.
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Defying all expectations, Microsoft’s Bing search engine met with positive reviews when it launched earlier this year, and now its results are about get a whole bit brainier: it’s inked a deal to show Wolfram Alpha’s sciencey search results.
Wolfram Alpha – the ‘computational knowledge engine’ that appeared just a little bit too close to the new Terminator film for our liking – now has an iPhone-optimised portal to make it easier to answer tricky questions on the go.