Monday, May 25, 2009

Wolfram Alpha -> 1st "Answer Engine" not "Search Engine"

Last week my colleague asked me, have you heard of the new search engine??? I said, ah... I know they are lots of search engines available in online.. tried many but I always prefer Google which I consider the best one so far... at least to me... then he asked me... so how many Answer engine I heard of it? Oops! Interesting... so what’s this answer engine is about? He said.. Wolfram Alphawhich came as a big technology news in BBC.. when you search for something in Google, it throws you thousands of results directing towards other websites. However, Wolfram Alpha gets the exact result for the content we looking for instead of re-directing us to some other website and look for the content on our own.

For example, I tried typing.. “Napier University” in the wolfram alpha search box and it gave me the following result

Hope, you got the fair idea when you had a quick look at the above image. Yes, it gave the result of the web address of the Napier University (www.napier.ac.uk), location of the University, Students strength, established year, etc., SAVES TIME! Isn’t it??? In fact lots of time because usually, if someone wants to know about University, they have to go from one page to other page to gather all these details.

The below image shows the result of the same Napier University search but in Google.... which you all very familiar about it....

Google is the Giant in this Internet world... So, I have a feeling that they may buy WolfAlpha in the near future... ;-) anyway it’s my personal wish... Why should I open a new website link to search for the content, let it be an added feature in the Google search engine itself... “Google-WolfAlpha Answer Engine” how does it sound?????

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