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I put in a request for a Wolfram Alpha API developer ID last year, but never heard back. Is anyone here using the API?

I could have sworn DuckDuckGo had it integrated, but I can't find it now.

duck duck go is rapidly becoming a new goto search engine. It hasn't quite replaced google, but it's farther along in doing so than any other engine.

Does DuckDuckGo have a following outside of the tech crowd?

I'm not sure, but it's growing fast.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/duckduckgo.com

I spoke to someone at Wolfram about using the API about 6 months ago and they said they would try and get me access to their "Pioneer Grant" which is the free version of the API. No word since then. The pricing for the regular API is prohibitively expensive. How did you intend to use it?

Maybe they don't want to lose brand identity.

I didn't want to use it for anything terribly sophisticated; I wanted to make a lightweight web application for people to track their dietary history. WolframAlpha would make it pretty simple: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+slice+pizza,+2+cups+g...

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