What is the buzz about Wolfram Alpha?
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Wolfram Alpha (www.wolframalpha.com) is new and interesting online search engine that could beat Google Search at its own game.
Wolfram Alpha does not generate the usual links to information from across the web to answer your search query. Instead, it tries to understand what you’ve asked and presents factual data from a database.
It presents its results in tables, charts, diagrams and other visual means as an answer to your query.
I doubt Wolfram Alpha would make the conventional search engines obsolete since its strength is in crunching factual data . It does not do well with non technical daata such as music, news and hobbies so users looking for such information will not find this search engine userful.
For people who need information such as “Youtube users” , “Population of Cyprus” or “Weather in June 2008″, this search engine would definitely come in very handy and useful
Microsoft is supposed to unveil the new Kumo Search engine at “All Things Digital”organized by Wall Street Journal (WSJ) next week. Will this give us a different perspective or a new experience?
