The hype around Wolfram|Alpha , the next “Google killer” from the makers of Mathematica, has been building over the last few weeks. Today, we were lucky enough to attend a one-hour web demo with Stephen Wolfram , and from what we’ve seen, it definitely looks like it can live up to the hype – though, because it is so different from traditional search engines, it will definitely not be a “Google killer.” According to Stephen Wolfram, the goal of Alpha is to give everyone access to expert knowledge and the data that a specialist would be able to compute from this information. Sponsor Note : Wolfram asked us to refrain from posting screenshots, so we will not use any in this post. Alpha, which will go live within the next few weeks, is quite different from Google and really doesn’t directly compete with it at all.
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