Is Wolfram Alpha going to revolutionise the Internet?

By Charles-Henry Ruyant

Wolfram Alpha is the new search engine which answers your question directly. Created by British physicist Stephen Wolfram, this new system will compile knowledge in order to give an accurate answer.

 

It is very simple to use the Wolfram Alpha system, ask a question, for example ‘How many miles is the marathon?’ and Wolfram Alpha will compile information and give you the correct answer.

 

Wolframe Alpha

Wolfram Alpha

 

This new way to search is considered by some blogs and newspapers as the top of the top. Even the Independent paper wrote ‘The biggest internet revolution for a generation’.

 

From my point of view this new system is an evolution but we are far from an Internet revolution! It is more or less Wikipedia , the only exception being that the answers are 99% of the time correct. Small revolution…Wikipedia is a pretty trustworthy source anyway.

 

And sometimes you want to know more than the answer (although Wolfram Alpha will propose to you relevant results).

 

Rumours are that Wolfram Alpha is looking for a partnership with Wikipedia and Google. And I think this is where Wolfram Alpha software will be very useful. This can improve the Google result (and add the function ‘answer a question’) and improve the veracity of Wikipedia. I think that Wolfram Alpha is more of an addition to an existing technology than a new product by itself. Because I don’t see users switching all the time between Google, Wikipedia and Wolfram Alpha.

 

Once again the future will tell us…


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