May 18. 2009

In the competitive world of search engines, there's a new entry to the game that goes by the name of Wolfram Alpha. Devised by a British scientist, it promises a more accurate search. To visit the site go to http://www.wolframalpha.com

Wolfram Alpha: Wikipedia killer?

It seems that most people who have had the chance to use Wolfram Alpha (myself included) agree that it will do a few things to Google: it will drive it to innovate in semantic search and it will complement its high-volume search capabilities quite nicely. It will not, however, kill Google.

On the other hand, the folks over at Trusted Reviews made a very good point in their first look at Alpha:

…Wolfram Alpha isn’t verbose, it likes stats not sentences so we are looking at something to complement existing web search engines, not replace them.

That said, there remains no doubt Wolfram Alpha represents a quantum leap forward in compiling data and the next time I need cold hard facts I suspect it is Wikipedia, not Google, which might feel the pinch…

http://education.zdnet.com