Wolfram Alpha

May 22nd, 2009 | Posted in: misc.

For all you nerds out there: There is a new search engine in town! Wolfram Alpha is a new search engine, which answers your question straight away, instead of giving us the links as Google does. Therefore it is positioned somewhere  between Google and Wikipedia. You type your question and it (supposedly) comes up with a relevant answer. Pretty cool.

For now it sort of looks like a dressed up beta-version but it is very good for gathering hard data like population numbers, time zones etc. Howeverm as soon as you ask more subjective questions it stumbles leaving a lot of questions unanswered (e.g. who is subtielman? Crazy!) I sort of believe this will have its rightful place in the world of search, as the database will continue to grow over time.