Better Search Doesn’t Mean Beating Google
Tue, Mar 10th, 2009 |
A headline that kicked around the blogosphere this weekend made no sense to me: “Wolfram Alpha Is Coming-and It Could Be as Important as Google.” (GOOG)
The post-written by Nova Spivack, the chief executive of Radar Networks-took a look at a new sort of search engine being cooked up in secret by Stephen Wolfram, a British mathematician.
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