A few days ago, a friend sent me a link to a site called Wolfram|Alpha. I thought that would be a usual website like 1000′s of other websites out there. But when I looked at the demo, it blew my socks off.
Check out the example, like comparing SAP with Oracle. Of course, you can search anything you want or need more information about and the web service will give you the information you may look for. Try it out and become a fan as well!
Use the Search Engine on the right hand site for more searches!
Definition for Wolfram|Alpha:
Wolfram Alpha (often stylized as Wolfram|Alpha) is an answer engine developed by Wolfram Research. It is an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data, rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer as a search engine would. It was announced in March 2009 by Stephen Wolfram, and was released to the public on May 15, 2009. It was voted the greatest computer innovation of 2009 by Popular Science.
Users submit queries and computation requests via a text field. Wolfram Alpha then computes and provides answers and relevant visualizations from a core knowledge base of curated, structured data. Wolfram Alpha thus differs from semantic search engines, which index a large number of answers and then try to match the question to one. In this way it has many parallels with Cyc, a project aimed since the 1980s at developing a common-sense inference engine.
Wolfram Alpha is built on Wolfram’s earlier flagship product, Mathematica, a complete functional-programming package which encompasses computer algebra, symbolic and numerical computation, visualization, and statistics capabilities. With Mathematica running in the background, it is suited to answer mathematical questions. The answer usually presents a human-readable solution. Alpha also incorporates elements of webMathematica in delivering its content.
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