Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Meet Google's smarter sibling!

Check out wolframalpha.com, a highly ambitious new search engine designed to give answers to objective, knowledge-based questions: dates, facts, calculations, formulations and other brainiac type stuff. It’s in its early stages, but you can still give it a test run with a sciency question or two. Its capabilities and the highly usable organization of the results are seriously impressive. While Google still reigns supreme for most general information searches, if wolframalpha starts providing a synopsis of the latest Idol episode, Google will need to look out!

The founder describes Wolfram|Alpha’s goals as follows:

Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.
Wolfram|Alpha aims to bring expert-level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest possible range of people—spanning all professions and education levels. Our goal is to accept completely free-form input, and to serve as a knowledge engine that generates powerful results and presents them with maximum clarity.
Wolfram|Alpha is an ambitious, long-term intellectual endeavor that we intend will deliver increasing capabilities over the years and decades to come. With a world-class team and participation from top outside experts in countless fields, our goal is to create something that will stand as a major milestone of 21st century intellectual achievement.
 

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