It could be said this is the comming of age of search engine. We have seen yahoo first then google and many other minor stars. Get ready now we have
What is so different or new about this search engine?
Well to start it uses Mathematica to produce the result of the queries! Mathematica is a wonderful software that allows one to do very sofisticated mathematical computation and that have a lot of information embeded in the system.
Wolframalpha allows one to not just search for information but to find new information from existing information in other words to mined information to ask questions to correlated information.
I found some cute things from Wolframalpha already.
At one point I guess their servers were overwhelm and I got this answer!
I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that. (Famous line from Arthur C Clarke 2001 Space Odyssey.
On the other hand I try something simple like getting Pi to 100,000 digits and after paging a few times got this errors that shows part of the inner workings of the system is Mathematica Code !!!
To learn more about wolfram alphahttp://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/madepossible/wolframalpha.html
