[Taxacom] Wolfram Alpha

[Eric.Zurcher at csiro.au]

And another interesting tool: Wolfram Alpha (http://www.wolframalpha.com). It seems to know a bit about taxonomy.

Eric Zurcher
CSIRO Plant Industry
Canberra, Australia
Eric.Zurcher at csiro.au
 

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Jim Croft [mailto:jim.croft at gmail.com] 
| Sent: Friday, 5 June 2009 11:34 AM
| To: Zurcher, Eric (PI, Black Mountain)
| Cc: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
| Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Google squared
| 
| that is pretty bloody clever...  try entering a place name too...
| 
| does not seem to work on botanist's names though...
| 
| jim
| 
| On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:26 AM,  <Eric.Zurcher at csiro.au> wrote:
| > Subscribers to Taxacom seem to have a general fondness for 
| new software tools, so some of you might want to take a look 
| at Google Squared (http://www.google.com/squared). Try 
| entering the name of a favourite family or genus, and see 
| what results you get.
| >
| > Eric Zurcher
| > CSIRO Plant Industry
| > Canberra, Australia
| > Eric.Zurcher at csiro.au
| >
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