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Stupid. Just because traffic is going down doesn't mean the technology or the company doesn't deserve some serious attention:

http://singularityhub.com/2009/07/27/wolfram-alpha-a-force-t...

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"Stupid." The title wasn't "wolfram alpha deserves no attention".

A fad is defined by a traffic spike followed by a return to normal.

So a group of people checked it out and it didn't stick to them. That's ok. No need for anger.

If there's no users, why would it deserve so much attention?

It is completely irrelevant how many users use it. If it is a great tool for just a minority, then it deserves attention in that minority.

edit: Am I missing about the number of users deciding about the quality of something? Or why on earth am I getting downmodded? I don't have a problem with that, but I feel stupid and I rather not.

Millions of people can't be wrong!

> If it is a great tool for just a minority, then it deserves attention in that minority.

Agreed. What I didn't agree was with the "serious attention" you mentioned earlier. btw, I didn't downvote you.

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