{"id":728,"date":"2009-05-19T09:27:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T13:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/?p=728"},"modified":"2016-02-27T11:01:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T16:01:48","slug":"wolframalpha-and-your-colleges-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2009\/05\/19\/wolframalpha-and-your-colleges-website\/","title":{"rendered":"WolframAlpha and your college&#8217;s website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/www.wolframalpha.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">WolframAlpha<\/a> is a new search engine that launched last week to much fanfare.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a search engine like Google &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t return pages and pages of details, instead it provides you with detailed answers to questions you ask it.<\/p>\n<p>Want to do complex math? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/?i=eigenvalues+{{4%2C1}%2C{2%2C-1}}\">No problem<\/a>, after all Wolfram also developed Mathematica. Want to know the GDP of Canada compared to that of Ireland? It&#8217;s got an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/?i=GDP+Canada+compared+to++Ireland\">answer<\/a>. Want to know the weather on the day you were born? It knows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/?i=weather+in+erie+pa+on+may+22%2C+1976\">that<\/a>. Want to sequence DNA? It can do that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/?i=GACTAGCGATC\">too<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It also knows a bit about your college&#8217;s website. It will tell you where it&#8217;s hosted, some basic stats (gathered from sources like Alexa, I&#8217;d wager) and some stats about your home page.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite was the beautiful map it made of elements on my college&#8217;s homepage:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-730\" title=\"picture-13\" alt=\"picture-13\" src=\"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/picture-131.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click for a larger version.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ll learn anything out about your site that you didn&#8217;t already know, but you should at least check the validity of the information. That&#8217;s part of the fun of managing a college&#8217;s website, a decent amount of our time is spent making sure everyone else has the right information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WolframAlpha is a new search engine that launched last week to much fanfare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[193,956,375,455,509,638,806],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - 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