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Update: Techcrunch is reporting a deal with Bing.  I'm not surprised as one of the commenters suggests WA really is bad in terms of user experience and that would suggest that they are going for a licence model.

Wolfram Alpha is Announcing Updates
(http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2009/08/20/what-weve-been-doing-this-summer)

Got an email from them this evening:

Today, Stephen Wolfram is sharing an update on some of the advances and improvements we’ve made to Wolfram|Alpha in his blog post, “What We’ve Been Doing This Summer.”

Covering everything from simple data fixes to major framework improvements, the blog post gives you a real inside look at what our team has been and continues working on.

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I’m big on WA – still haven’t had a chance to comb thru their API documentation like I want – it doesn’t read like a typical API, so there’s definitely a learning curve present there not found in typical web APIs.

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