anon
04.05.09, 18:58
Wolfram Alpha is not a search engine.
In a talk at Harvard Law School, Stephen Wolfram, a well-known mathematician, scientist and entrepreneur, gave a demonstration of his soon-to-be released Web service which promises to answer all sorts of questions. The service, called Wolfram Alpha, had technology bloggers abuzz that a rival to Google was about to hit the Web.
While search engines like Google, by and large, find things that already exist on the Internet - Web sites, photos, videos, blogs - Wolfram Alpha answers questions, often by doing complex, and new computations.
It's hard to judge a product from a demo, but by the looks of it, Wolfram Alpha is impressive.
The Veil Is Lifted From Wolfram Alpha - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/wolfram-alpha-veil-lifted/)
In a talk at Harvard Law School, Stephen Wolfram, a well-known mathematician, scientist and entrepreneur, gave a demonstration of his soon-to-be released Web service which promises to answer all sorts of questions. The service, called Wolfram Alpha, had technology bloggers abuzz that a rival to Google was about to hit the Web.
While search engines like Google, by and large, find things that already exist on the Internet - Web sites, photos, videos, blogs - Wolfram Alpha answers questions, often by doing complex, and new computations.
It's hard to judge a product from a demo, but by the looks of it, Wolfram Alpha is impressive.
The Veil Is Lifted From Wolfram Alpha - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/wolfram-alpha-veil-lifted/)