It is 7:20 Central Time With a few strings here and there, we managed to try out the Lastest Wolfram|Alpha. This is an amazing new search. Check out the quick Intro. [Quick Intro]
We took some screen shots of this in action – while this isn’t online yet we managed to sneak these out for you ENJOY!-
Update – 5/16 It is Live — Look for this Amazing new computation search [HERE]
Wolfram Alpha is not a “Google killer.” Nor is it, in fact, a search engine. Instead, it is a “computational knowledge engine,” says Stephen Wolfram, inventor of the new online service. He proudly describes his creation as “a new paradigm for the use of computers and the Web.” His goal is to finally make good on the promise that computer pioneers made in the 1950s: to make computers that can come up with their own answers to questions.
Wolfram, a physicist, certainly seems to have the background needed for such a task. He invented the “Mathematica” software package, a universal problem solver for mathematical questions of all kinds, especially those that statisticians, scientists and mathematicians pose. And since the program requires so much processing power, some computer magazines even use it to test the capacity and performance of PCs.
Now Wolfram wants to revolutionize the way we search for answers online. The Wolfram Alpha “answer machine” is meant to show us how to get there by doing much the same thing as Google — only better. Well, at least in theory.
