The big search engine news story this week was the launch of the new Wolfram Alpha search site, by some hyped to be the new Google. Pandia is not convinced that Wolfram Alpha will make a major impact.
It isn’t. Wolfram Alpha is not an alternative to Google or any of the other major search engines, it is another type of search tool that complements Google. They themselves call it “a computational knowledge engine.”
The name refers to the founder, former particle physicist Steven Wolfram.
In short Wolfram Alpha is a fact finder that is especially fond of statistics. Ask it for the distance to the moon and it will tell you not only the average distance (385000 km), but also the distance right now (363389 km).
If you ask it about how to market your site online, however, it is totally at loss: “Wolfram|Alpha isn’t sure what to do with your input.”

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