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Wolfram Alpha What Google's New Rival Knows -- and Doesn't

Von Konrad Lischka and Matthias Kremp

Part 9: Sports -- The Olympics? Never Heard of It

Still, Wolfram Alpha does know a little something about baseball. When asked to compare the New York Yankees with the Boston Red Sox, the search engine reveals who won the World Series in various years. The results for the individual teams also display the number of games won and lost in each year. Searches for "Olympic medals" or just for the "Olympic Games" come up empty, though. You only get the message: "Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input."

The first result in a Google search for "Olympic games medals" leads to a page that lists the medals won by each country -- but without information related to the time frame or the source of the statistics.

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