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:
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...