Re: Wolfram|Alpha Lookup Tool for Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg99968] Re: Wolfram|Alpha Lookup Tool for Mathematica
- From: mark mcclure <mcmcclur at unca.edu>
- Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 05:02:08 -0400 (EDT)
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On May 16, 5:17 am, David Reiss <dbre... at gmail.com> wrote: > With the release of Wolfram|Alpha I have created a small tool that > allows you to send a query to Wolfram|Alpha directly from > Mathematica. Unfortunately, this is clearly against the terms of use: http://www.wolframalpha.com/termsofuse.html In particular: "The Wolfram|Alpha service may be used only by a human being using a conventional web browser to manually enter queries one at a time." I think that Mathematica is clearly not a conventional web browser. Now, I don't mean to imply that this tool should not have been written or that it is Wolfram Research's intention to forbid this specific use. On the contrary, the ease of writing such a tool using query strings would indicate otherwise. Hopefully, the forthcoming API will include separate terms of use that clarify this matter. Mark McClure