Top 10: Witzige Easter Eggs in Wolfram Alpha.

Oder: Wieso die SuchWis­sens­ma­schine rich­tig lus­tig sein kann.

Die Top 10 der wit­zigs­ten Such­be­griffe bei Wolf­ram Alpha (via derStandard.at, chip.de, kubitz.net, Andreas, mashable.com, eigene Fragen):

1. How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man? [URL]
   the ans­wer, my fri­end, is blo­win‘ in the wind
   (accor­ding to Bob Dylan)
2. Do you speak Ger­man? [URL]
   I hope to learn many lan­gua­ges, but for now I only know English.
   
3. To be or not to be [URL]
   …that is the ques­tion.
   (accor­ding to the Wil­liam Shake­speare)
   
4. how much wood would a wood­chuck chuck if a wood­chuck could chuck wood? [URL]
   a wood­chuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck if a wood­chuck could chuck wood
   (accor­ding to the tongue-twister)
   (Kurze Ver­sion: „wood could a wood­chuck chuck“, und: „could“ statt „would“ in der lan­gen Frage funk­tio­niert auch)
5. What do you like? [URL]
   I like to explore the com­pu­ta­tio­nal uni­verse.
   What do you not like? [URL]
   I don’t like to be trea­ted as if I were just a search engine.
   
6. Hello [URL]
   Hello, human.
   Wenn dir lang­wei­lig ist, kannst du dich ein wenig mit Wolf­ram Alpha „unter­hal­ten“:
   „What is your name?“, „Who crea­ted you?“, „How old are you?“, „Can you help me?“, „Where are you?“, „How are you?“, „What will you do?“, „What are you?“, „Can you eat?“
7. How much do you know? [URL]
   I am capable of uni­ver­sal com­pu­ta­tion; that I can say.
   (Funk­tio­niert auch auch mit „Are you self-aware?“)
8. Where have all the flowers gone? [URL]
   Long time pas­sing.
   (accor­ding to the 1960s folk song by Pete See­ger and Joe Hicker­son)
   
9. how many licks does it take to get to the cen­ter of a toot­sie pop? [URL]
   3
   (accor­ding to Toot­sie Pop com­mer­ci­als)
   
10. Why did the chi­cken cross the road? [URL]
    to get to the other side

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