Well, well Wolfram Alpha just went live last night and we were anxiously waiting for it. However, it wasn’t exactly what we expected. The thrill is gone now. I’m not that excited about it, and I can say that I was very disappointed. I admit that Wolfram|Alpha is in early-development, but I was expecting a whole lot more, and now I’m sure that this wasn’t meant to be the Google Killer. I told you a few days ago that Google Squared will be the Wolfram Alpha Killer, but I was wrong as there is nothing to kill.

Yesterday I told you that I hope Wolfram Alpha’s servers to resist the amount of traffic and stress, but it wasn’t meant to be. Server overload now, many problems, and if you’re lucky enough to catch it while it works, the answers provided are not that enthusiastic. Actually, the first 6 queries that I entered (e.g. what is social media) didn’t work. Well, I finally got to “paris” and it finally returned something to me. Wolfram Alpha assumed that “paris” is a city from France, but it also give me the possibility to choose Paris, Texas or other cities, then it returned me the city population, metro area population, its location, current local time, current weather, approximate elevation, and nearby larger city which was London, UK.

Overall I was disappointed, however, I will give Wolfram Alpha a couple of weeks before making further judgements. We’ll see what happens in the following days when things cool down.