Wolfram Alpha is a brand-new search engine. One expert said it "could be as important as Google". What is so special about this new search engine?
Wolfram Alpha is developed by Wolfram Research. Scientists is already using this company’s previous creations, the computer program Mathematica, to help them with their work. Same as this former program, Wolfram Alpha is also mathematic. But this “answer-engine” not just can help you with mathematic works. It can do something more.
The term “answer-engine” means that Wolfram Alpha is “question answering”. The engine would understand your question, then answer your question. For example, typing “which is the tallest building in the world?”, Wolfram Alpha will answer you “Burj Khalifa”. Searching for “lim(x->infinity) (x^3)/(x+5)^3”, Wolfram Alpha will answer you “1”. When compared with Google, or other ordinary search engines, which would gives you websites containing your keywords, Wolfram Alpha’s results would truly amaze us.
Wolfram Alpha is expected to be successful, even can be compared with Google. Before this search engine appeared, it was far more inconvenient to find the answer of our question. Searching on Google gives us a lot if irrelevant results; Reading and searching on books is very time consuming; asking teachers or lecturers is not always possible as we seldom meet. Thus, Wolfram Alpha will be the best choice of search engine when we are looking for answer of a certain question.
Wolfram Alpha also outstands with its sophisticated knowledge. We can easily search for accurate and detailed physics or chemistry data on it. It can also act as a dictionary, giving us several definition of a certain English word. Stephen Wolfram, developer of this engine, also showed us searching examples for nutritional information, weather, and census data in a demonstration. The abundance and flexibility of Wolfram Alpha is astonishing.
Although it has some advantages over Google and other search engines, it is quite different from other search engines. Sometimes what we are looking for are some webpage, some photos, some articles, some wider variety of information, rather than an exact solution. Therefore, there would not be direct competition between these engines.
With its unique and convenient features, it is believed that Wolfram Alpha would become as famous as Google. Its success can even induce other companies to develop new technologies of search engines, not just blinded to the old format webpage search engines.
References
Wolfram Alpha is developed by Wolfram Research. Scientists is already using this company’s previous creations, the computer program Mathematica, to help them with their work. Same as this former program, Wolfram Alpha is also mathematic. But this “answer-engine” not just can help you with mathematic works. It can do something more.
The term “answer-engine” means that Wolfram Alpha is “question answering”. The engine would understand your question, then answer your question. For example, typing “which is the tallest building in the world?”, Wolfram Alpha will answer you “Burj Khalifa”. Searching for “lim(x->infinity) (x^3)/(x+5)^3”, Wolfram Alpha will answer you “1”. When compared with Google, or other ordinary search engines, which would gives you websites containing your keywords, Wolfram Alpha’s results would truly amaze us.
Wolfram Alpha is expected to be successful, even can be compared with Google. Before this search engine appeared, it was far more inconvenient to find the answer of our question. Searching on Google gives us a lot if irrelevant results; Reading and searching on books is very time consuming; asking teachers or lecturers is not always possible as we seldom meet. Thus, Wolfram Alpha will be the best choice of search engine when we are looking for answer of a certain question.
Wolfram Alpha also outstands with its sophisticated knowledge. We can easily search for accurate and detailed physics or chemistry data on it. It can also act as a dictionary, giving us several definition of a certain English word. Stephen Wolfram, developer of this engine, also showed us searching examples for nutritional information, weather, and census data in a demonstration. The abundance and flexibility of Wolfram Alpha is astonishing.
Although it has some advantages over Google and other search engines, it is quite different from other search engines. Sometimes what we are looking for are some webpage, some photos, some articles, some wider variety of information, rather than an exact solution. Therefore, there would not be direct competition between these engines.
With its unique and convenient features, it is believed that Wolfram Alpha would become as famous as Google. Its success can even induce other companies to develop new technologies of search engines, not just blinded to the old format webpage search engines.
References
- http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2009/05/15/wolframalpha-is-launching-made-possible-by-mathematica/
- http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wolframalpha_our_first_impressions.php
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Alpha
- http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/05/wolframalpha-fails-the-cool-test/
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/09/search-engine-google
- http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2009/05/12/going-live-and-webcasting-it/
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