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Say you want to know how much salt there is in a pinch of salt. So you head to Google with your query. And, ever the generous, the search engine coughs back more than a million links.
And if you’ve left Google set to its default 10 results per page, you will be in no luck with the salt pinch query. The first link that may resemble an answer comes 11th (a Yahoo Answers page).
But you could also stop by Wolfram Alpha, a newcomer on the search engine scene. There you will get a smaller number of results: a single page that contains in neat tables all the information one would probably hope to know about the pinch of salt.
Say you want to know how much salt there is in a pinch of salt. So you head to Google with your query. And, ever the generous, the search engine coughs back more than a million links.
And if you’ve left Google set to its default 10 results per page, you will be in no luck with the salt pinch query. The first link that may resemble an answer comes 11th (a Yahoo Answers page).
But you could also stop by Wolfram Alpha, a newcomer on the search engine scene. There you will get a smaller number of results: a single page that contains in neat tables all the information one would probably hope to know about the pinch of salt.
