Amen. Here's my question from the spin/marketing/PR perspective:
They got press because everyone loves talking about a Google killer. Freebase killer just doesn't get you the same type of hype.
Was the hype created due to:
a) Wolfram knew that people would talk more about a google killer and positioned it this way.
b) The press mis-interpreted what the product did and wanted it to be a Google killer, even though it's NOT.
c) A combination of both.
This quote from Conrad Wolfram was probably something to do with it IMHO
βIt does at first glance look like a normal search engine, but in fact we have 10,000 computer processors behind the scenes working out an exact answer. It will really change the way we get our knowledge, and we hope it will change the way people search online.β
They got press because everyone loves talking about a Google killer. Freebase killer just doesn't get you the same type of hype.
Was the hype created due to:
a) Wolfram knew that people would talk more about a google killer and positioned it this way. b) The press mis-interpreted what the product did and wanted it to be a Google killer, even though it's NOT. c) A combination of both.