Mashable: “It’s interesting, too, that Wolfram Alpha attempted to deflect the hype (and likely disappointment) early on by asserting that it was not a Google competitor, but then ramped up the hype once again by live-streaming the incredibly challenging launch process.”

TC: “Finally, it is not as though Web isn’t evolving as well. Wolfram needs to store all of the data it sifts through in its own databases because that is how it imposes structure on the data. The Web is messy and unstructured. Yet there is a general movement afoot to impose structure on the data found across the Web. Everyone from semantic search startups to Google itself is making the Web more computable by categorizing the information on it in a way that computers can understand and manipulate more easily. Of course, to the extent that happens, Wolfram Alpha can take advantage of it as well. – In search, whoever can come up with the best answer wins. As promising as it is, that isn’t Wolfram Alpha yet.“