Wolfram Alpha will Take Your Questions -- Any Questions
Stephen Wolfram believes he has created the ultimate natural search engine and it's coming in May 2009.
Called Wolfram Alpha, the new search engine can understand a fact-based question and return a specific answer on its own. This is a significantly different approach from Google, which accepts keywords and then matches those words to millions of indexed documents. The difference is this: Google takes the words you type into the search box, matches it to similar words across the web and then spits out the results without ever understanding what any of the words mean. Wolfram, on the other hand, claims his search engine can understand what you're asking it and decide on the correct response without referring to the rest of the web.
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Topics: Google, Search Box, Search Engine, Stephen Wolfram, Natural Search
