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Tomorrow's news: Wolfram Alpha

By Anna Sobering

Thursday, January 14, 2010

 Imagine a website where you search and exactly what you want to know pops up on the screen. There’s no more digging through web pages trying to find what you need.

 A new computational knowledge engine, Wolfram|Alpha, is on its way to developing the technology thought to be the future of search engines. The goal of the website, to make the world’s knowledge computable and available to the public, is an ongoing process.

 Launched in May 2009 by Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram|Alpha hopes to be able to, according to his blog, “take questions people ask in natural language, and represent them in a precise form that fits into the computations one can do.” In other words, the engine is now trying to understand your search.

 Although the website is still in its early stages, it’s already extremely helpful when searching for specific facts or data. It takes a couple minutes to learn how to use, but the results are well worth it.

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