Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Wolfram Alpha

The launch of this new "Search Engine" intrigues me,especially as its not a search engine at all but a computation knowledge engine.

Having played with it a little during the soft launch phase and watching it collapse every time i searched!! its great to use it and see results.

Quite like the comparison element of the engine, ie cities i quite like its ease and the results layout


Plus the date search 


But these are mere distractions!  the real power comes into play when looking into astronomy and mathematics you get some really good results


A couple of issues that will haunt this engine are

Legitimacy of it information
Accuracy of its result
Academic criticism
Speed

Still early days

Take a look at 5 things wolfram alpha does better than google blog post on mashable.com here

 


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