Bye-Bye Search Engines. Hello KNOWLEDGE ENGINE - Check Out Wolfram|Alpha.

INFINITE KNOWLEDGE AT YOUR FINGERTIPS

Ever try to find a specific answer or information about something by typing your search into Google? Sometimes you can get a direct answer (like a currency conversion or a metric/standard conversion) if you type the right search, but more often then not, you get LINKS to many other sites (or worse, spamblogs) that may or may not have relevant or accurate information.

ENTER WOLFRAM|ALPHA

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Wolfram|Alpha is a new kind of search engine. In fact, its creators call it a "Knowledge Engine".

Want to see stats on the "International Space Station" (including even it's current location in orbit)? Just type it in. Need to solve a complex math equation? Just type it in! Want the demographic information or local weather for "Louisville, Kentucky", or the average nutritional facts for a "Pizza"? Yep - just type it in.

Click on the Wolfram|Alpha search bar above, or Click HERE to try it out at www.wolframalpha.com. Couldn't be easier.

More specifically, according to its FAQ's page, Wolfram|Alpha is a free "computational knowledge engine: it generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links" and it is designed "to bring expert-level knowledge to everybody."

Use it for combined websearching, and even insert a Wolfram|Alpha box in your Googleor Yahoodesktop, or in your blog (like the one on the right of this page). It works with all standard browsers (and your iphone too). It's intuitive and as easy to use as Google. The company even has custom intranet and corporate data solutions (Click Here). And what they don't have today, the will have soon.



Here are a few screenshots of search results on the Wolfram|Alpha homepage:




WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Check it out, kick the tires and let us know what you think by posting your comments here!