Google and Wofram|Alpha

Using google.com and wolfram|alpha.com to find answers to the following queries:

1. All english words containing the letters "eue"
I found that wolfram|alpha provided the best results using the following search query:

• words with eue

answer: queue queues queued

2. How much potassium in 4.7 oz of banana?
wolfram|alpha provided the best results using this query:

• potassium banana 4.7 oz.

answer: 477 mg.

3. How old was Barack Obama on the day you were born?
wolfram|alpha provided the best and fastest result using this query:

• barack obama age october 30 1974

answer: 13 years 2 months 26 days

4. Date and time of the next total solar eclipse in Eugene?
Though google did provide a link to the answer as the first result the results from wolfram|alpha were more detailed and easy to read as there was more information in the result. The query I used was:

• total solar eclipse eugene oregon

answer: 11:25 am PDT | Monday, August 21, 2017

7. How many vertices does an icosahedron have?
This query is more difficult to say which is the best or fastest. wolfram|alpha was definitely fastest finding the result but google provided a link to Wikipedia which I found to have more information on an icosahedron. I used the following query:

• icosahedron

answer: 12 vertices

8. Distance from Eugene to Tokyo?
wolfram|alpha was more useful for this query. It gave the distance as well as other statistical information and was quite fast. I used the following query:

• eugene oregon tokyo japan

answer: 4886 miles

9. Average Oregon income per capita?
google provided the best results once again with a link to Wikipedia. The information they provided was on all the counties in Oregon as well as rankings. wolfram|alpha was faster in the sense that the answer was not in a link but there wasn't as much information with this query. i used this query:

• average income per capita oregon

answer: $20,940

10. What is the Morse code for your first name?
The fastest result was most definitely from wolfram|alpha on this one. Google's results were nowhere near as good for this. I used the following query:

• morse code forrest

answer:

*  *  --  *  F 
|   --  --  --  O
|   *  --  *  R
|   *  --  *  R
|   *  E
|   *  *  *  S
|   --  T

This assignment has shown me the wonderful capabilities of wofram|alpha. Before this I had not used the site and was unaware that a site existed that provided these kinds of results for searching. It is very useful for many applications and types of information and I will most definitely use it a lot more.