Re: Wolfram|Alpha Lookup Tool for Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg100013] Re: Wolfram|Alpha Lookup Tool for Mathematica
- From: dbreiss at gmail.com
- Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 00:18:12 -0400 (EDT)
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This tool has been cleared directly with Wolfram Research. --David On May 20, 5:00 am, mark mcclure <mcmcc... at unca.edu> wrote: > 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.wolfra= malpha.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