Wolfram Alpha Launches
Wolfram Alpha has officially launched to the public Saturday May 17, 2009. Check the search engine for yourself:
Service Review
Wolfram Alpha is very interesting. If you missed out the news, it mashes data from various offline sources and presents it in a readable way, full of graphs, charts and comparisons. Data itself is gathered from various offline sources through partnerships, public access or purchases. It is then analyzed, cleaned, cross referenced and fed into the engine.
The engine itself is designed to compute complex mathematical equations and give instant results to questions that otherwise would take hours to answer, find out, measure and cross reference. The emphasis is on numbers and precise sciences, therefore Wolfram’s strongest side is in data that can somehow be mathematically manipulated.
The engine is perfect for students, scientists and researchers who need instant facts and complex calculations. I suspect Wolfram Alpha will soon be making its way to the list of essential tools used by academic community worldwide, just like Google once did.
On the other hand, Wolfram Alpha still has a lot of trouble understanding search queries and gives empty results for many attempts. It will improve as more and more people use it, but it will take some time.
Here are some interesting search queries:
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