Wolfram Alpha a new way of searching the net
May 19, 2009 · Print This Article
British physicist, Stephen Wolfram has unveil plans to launch a new search engine which provides search results radically differently from the way existing search engine does it. Known as Wolfram, the new web search attempt to address some of the deficiencies of current web search by understanding people’s questions and answering them directly rather than sending them to other websites that answers the question.
Whenever a new search engine is announced, comparison with Google is not always far away, some people said the Wolfram Alpha which, which is expected to be launched two moths time could be as important as Google. The fact is that it does things very very differently from Google.
Wolfram Alpha creator argue that current search engines can fetch you answer to question someone else has put on the Internet before, “But we can’t compute from that. And in effect, we can only answer questions that have been literally asked before. We can look things up, but we can’t figure anything new out.” so the crucial addition his search engine will be adding to the mix is that it can actually answer questions by using facts and information from its database and using two ingredient to do more than that Mathematica and NKS.
Wolfram on his blog said Mathematica and NKS. With Mathematica, I had a symbolic language to represent anything—as well as the algorithmic power to do any kind of computation. And with NKS, I had a paradigm for understanding how all sorts of complexity could arise from simple rules.
Though Wolfram Alpha is not launched yet but its online, you can test drive it and see what you think.
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