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This stuff is what really irritates me about Wolfram Alpha. Almost everything they do beyond basic unit conversion comes across as a nifty parlor trick instead of a real capability.

Like you see this example, and think "Oh, it can apply different types of animal vision to different types of images." so you try this:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=apply+cat+vision+to+pho...

And you get:

> Input interpretation: Canis Minor | constellation region

With a diagram of the constellation Canis Minor...which I guess is SORT of a small dog.

But this kind of stuff is rife throughout Wolfram Alpha, and makes it much much less useful than Google. For example, here's a question I was curious about recently: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=world+energy+use+per+ye...

Wolfram just totally ignores the second part of the query, versus Google[0], which gives this very on-topic result for the third result: http://www.sandia.gov/~jytsao/Solar%20FAQs.pdf‎

[0] https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=world%20energy%2...



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