For Web 2.0, we had to answer the questions below using Google and Wolfram to find the answers.
1. All English words containing the letters "eue"
I like Google better. Wolfram was a pita to use. I had to rephrase my question way too many times for me to even consider this to be a valid search tool for this type of information.
Using Google, I found the website http://www.morewords.com. The following words were listed there: feued, queue, queued, queueing, queuer, queuer, queuers, and queues.
On Wolfram, I found three words that contain the letters “eue” in sequence; queue, queued and
queues.
queues.
2. How much potassium in 4.7 oz of banana?
Wolfram returned the information immediately. It is 475 milligrams. Google required too much digging to get the information.
3. How old was Barack Obama on the day you were born?
Wolfram returned the result immediately. He was 3 years, 6 month and 23 days.
Google turned up many results for a Barrack Obama senior, not the president. Too much digging and or rephrasing required to get the answer.
4. Date and time of the next total solar eclipse in Eugene?
Google turned up this answer for the next total solar eclipse: August 21 2017 (found on http://www.hermit.org/eclipse/2017-08-21/) further digging in the article turned up a time: 17:21 (24 hour time), 5:21 pm. (Based on a graphic showing the path of the eclipse and the approximate time it would pass over a specific location).
Wolfram: 12:25 MDT August 21, 2017 (What is MDT?)
5. What is the minimum and maximum price of Google stock since it went public?
Google: minimum price was $85 the day it was first listed; the maximum was $747.24 on November 7, 2007. I found this information on two different websites. (Google was faster for me)
Wolfram showed graphs for the stock prices. I had to ask the question several different ways. Minimum price was less than $100. Maximum price I was unable to find because I couldn’t think of a way that Wolfram could understand what I was looking for.
6. Link an image of the barcode for UPC 01234567890
Wolfram found the following: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=barcode+01234567890 This page shows three different versions of the barcode.
Google found several sites that had the barcode, include other students’ blogs. One place to find it is http://www.activebarcode.com/codes/images/upce.gif .
7. How many vertices does an icosahedron have?
Twelve. Both Wolfram and Google turned up an answer quickly.
8. Distance from Eugene to Tokyo?
Wolfram gave an answer of 4886 miles. Google said it was 13882 flight miles. Actual distance Wolfram gave the answer, but for actual travel miles, Google gave the answer.
9. Average Oregon income per capita?
Wolfram gave the answer of $31930/year (2007 estimate). Google gave more recent information: $35,956/year (2008) source: http://www.qualityinfo.org/pubs/single/pcpi.pdf
10. What is the Morse code for your first name?
_._ |.. | _ _ | _ ... | .| ._. | . _ . . | _ . _ _
K I M B E R L Y
Both Wolfram and Google found the answer quickly. Wolfram provided that answer only, while Google provided additional information that could be used or discarded as needed.
http://www.pokemyname.com/firstname_2265_kimberly.htm is one of the sites I found on Google. It showed my name in Morse code and Braille among others. It also provided other interesting information about the name Kimberly.
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