New Search Engine - WolframAlpha - Is Working
 

"A revolutionary new search engine that computes answers rather than pointing to websites will be launched officially today amid heated talk that it could challenge the might of Google.


Wolfram Alpha, named after Stephen Wolfram, the British-born computer scientist and inventor behind the project, takes a query and uses computational power to crunch through huge databases.


The service can compute the distance between two cities, the population of a country at a specific date and the position of the Space Shuttle at a given moment. The user does not have to search through links provided by the engine; the answer comes immediately and, if appropriate, is accompanied by charts or graphs. What it does that Google, at the moment, cannot do is provide answers to questions that have not been answered already."


http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle6307744.ece



The search engine site (it's probably going to get overwhelmed today)

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Wow...that's pretty cool. *Goes to check it out*

If you put your name in it gives rank and ethnic percentage of use. I put in recoveryourlife.com and only got this:

Any Joss Whedon fans will love the name.

Wolfram from Wolfram&Hart & Alpha from Dollhouse.

/end geek

It can generate .pdf's of answers given

Jack, you're loving this aren't you? :p

I am trying to love it desperately. Google has been bringing me down. I know this isn't the same as Google but in ways it can be better. I like researching and new tech stuffs so this has both. Of course I had to test the limits of the engine so I already looked up my favourite bird

It will never challenge google. They're are two fundamentally different things, targeting two different uses.