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My meaning was just that I saw it sometimes referenced on HN, but I haven't seen it mentioned for a while now. Hence my search and results showing 8 years since
by zandorg 5y ago
My meaning was just that I saw it sometimes referenced on HN, but I haven't seen it mentioned for a while now. Hence my search and results showing 8 years since.
I guess what I should be doing is looking at the Alexa ranking of Wolfram Alpha.
- pvg 5y agoYou should search comments, rather than stories. It's very regularly referenced in HN comments, often for calculations, sometimes in other contexts. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=wolfram%20alpha&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- asxd 5y agoI appreciate the conversation around WA this Ask HN has started, but yeah you've basically completely answered the original question by pointing this out.
- zandorg 5y agoFair enough. I was definitely searching comments (not stories), but I might not have filtered by Date, hence the lack of recent results.
- xeeeeeeeeeeenu 5y agoSorting by popularity has been broken for years because comment scores aren't public any more.
- dylan604 5y agoThey're just serving up answers which is boring to HN readers. Where's the drama in collecting data privately? Where's the drama from censoring results? No drama == No interest? Gawd, I have become cynical.
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