Wolfram Alpha
| May 19th, 2009Wolfram Alpha is finally launched for everyone. It really seems capable of answering some complicated questions but on my opinion it still needs some work. However, the job of the artificial intelligence behind it is remarkable.
What many people expected was that Wolfram Alpha will challenge Google as a search engine, but what I see now is that it has different purpose. The A.I. seems more like a giant encyclopedia with very “clever” search engine and network abilities than a web search engine. What is more, if you want to search the web, there is a special button for that on every search page in Wolfram. So, it is meant to work with Google, not against it.
However, I wonder how Wikipedia will handle that…
Yeah, WolframAlpha ist quite cool, it occured already that I used wolframalpha instead of wikipedia. But we will see, if the current version is “alpha” then i wonder what the full version will be :)