Wolfram|Alpha is Live

After much anticipation amongst SEO’s and active internet users, Wolfram Alpha has finally launched.

As stated on the search engine, “Wolfram|Alpha’s long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything.”

I have been playing around with this search engine today and find it very cool. I have asked many questions and will share some of the data I have obtained. The first question I asked was: What is the weather in Fort Lauderdale? As you can see, I received the temperature and conditions, followed by graphs, then weather station information and comparisons. I found this information to be very beneficial.

I then typed in a math equation: 2345677/765. As you can see, they provided me with the answer to the question, and even offered to show me the steps on how to solve it! I wish this search engine would have been available when I was in high school or college!

This search engine appears to be very advanced. Since it is so new there are still some issues here and there, but overall I am impressed. Try it out and let me know your thoughts.

New Search Engine: Wolfram|Alpha

On May 18th a new search engine is scheduled to launch called Wolfram|Alpha. This search engine differentiates itself from Google and the other top search engines by being a “computational knowledge engine.” In a nutshell, you can ask factual questions and the search engine will compute the answer for you. This is very different then the results you get from Google and even Wikipedia.

This new search engine is the buzz online, and I can’t wait to try it out in a few days. Wolfram|Alpha might change the way we search!