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11.22.09

Wolfram Co-Founder On Why Wolfram|Alpha Doesn't Need to Kill Google

Gray Matter's own Theodore Gray reports from his day job at Wolfram on how his new "knowledge engine" provides exactly what Google can't

By Theodore Gray Posted 05.28.2009 at 9:20 am 2 Comments

PopSci's Grouse recently reviewed Wolfram|Alpha. I guess that's what happens when you ignore your editors for a week: They let someone else write about your project!

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The Grouse Weighs in on Wolfram

With the collective brainpower of Google, Wikipedia, and IMDB always just a few keystrokes away, is there really a need for another source of knowledge, factoids, and trivia on the Internet? Wolfram|Alpha sure thinks so

By Tom Conlon Posted 05.26.2009 at 10:48 am 0 Comments

Wolfram|Alpha ... what a name, huh? And I mean that in the worst way possible. Dismal chances of ever entering the lexicon aside, there's a lot of excitement surrounding Wolfram|Alpha, which officially launched last week. If you're not familiar with it, Wolfram|Alpha is billed as a "computational knowledge engine" and is the brainchild of British mathematician Stephen Wolfram. Unlike Google and other search engines you've used before, Wolfram|Alpha doesn't return links to relevant Web pages.

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READ MORE ABOUT > computers, google, Internet, natural language software, search engines, web, wolfram|alpha