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by sinaiman 5540 days ago
Great news, my suggestion: ditch the "time calculated" info on Wolfram results.

I personally don't care that something was "Computed by Wolfram|Alpha at Mon Apr 18 2011 19:31:47 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)"

Just "Computed by Wolfram|Alpha" would suffice

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Yes, or use a much lighter font on the WA timestamp, now it is too prominent.

As an example, try to parse this result for "fathers day 2011":

"Sunday, June 19, 2011 Computed by Wolfram|Alpha at Tue Apr 19 2011 08:31:06 GMT+0300 (FLE Daylight Time)""

An improvement is already live regarding this, it used to have the same font size and color for the result and the timestamp. However I would personally make the WA date/time even lighter;

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=fathers+day+2011

Looks like this now:

http://www.webpagescreenshot.info/img/70578-420201195614AM

I care, if its old. The knowing the age of data is very valuable when judging its relevance.
Then, "Computed by Wolfram|Alpha two minutes ago" would suffice.
If someone printed it out they then wouldn't know what ago refers to. I will revisit the coloring and size though -- I think I could de-emphasize it a bit.
It's important so that you can know exactly when it goes into the public domain
Interesting, I hadn't considered that angle. Are all W|A results public domain?
I believe he means "so you know when it falls out of copyright".