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Does WolframAlpha replace google?

May 19th, 2009 | Author: Webboti

Wolfram Alpha

During the last days a lot of things could be read about the new search engine WolframAlpha. When i heard the phrase “new search-engine”, the author got my immediate attention, especially when the search engine is named after the famous mathematician Stephen wolfram.

Since search engines are also related to Webbots I will let you know about my first experience with Wolfram Alpha.

The First Impression

My first visit on the page WolframAlpha.com ended pretty quickly as the service had nost started back then. I had been told to come back in may when the service is going to launch.

Ok – that didn’t work – anyway i wanted to know more about WolframAlpha (WA) and why there is so much buzz about it. A quick research via google showed me a couple articles of lucky journalists that had been in the position to “pre beta test” WA.

My first though on the term “Search Engine” was – WOW – somebody new tries to compete with Google and Yahoo. After some detailed reading i figured out though that WA will be something different to a regular search engine, so very different from Google.

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