Wolfram Alpha, the computational search engine
Thursday, June 4th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Wolfram Alpha, the new, long-awaited search engine, also known as ‘computational knowledge engine’, was officially launched on Monday.
According to creators, Wolfram Alpha’s long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone.
“Fifty years ago, when computers were young, people assumed that they’d be able to ask a computer any factual question, and have it compute the answer,” Stephen Wolfram, the founder and chief executive of Wolfram Research, said in a statement. “I’m happy to say that we’ve successfully built a system that delivers knowledge from a simple input field, giving access to a huge system, with trillions of pieces of curated data and millions of lines of algorithms.
Wolfram Alpha is an interesting take on search engines. Not really a web search engine such as Google or Yahoo but a data search tool.
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