The upcoming search site Wolfram|Alpha is ready to go live in a matter of days, but don't expect a Google-like experience when using the engine. Wolfram|Alpha is armed with technologies and formulas that considers not only the particular words in a query, but also what they mean when taken together. It can also perform computations involving numbers or formulas users enter.
A new search service that brings a measure of artificial intelligence to traditional Internet searching is set to go public soon. Wolfram|Alpha has been anticipated for several months, and the company behind it recently drew attention by opening access to a small number of testers.
The service should launch late this week, states the company's blog, though it names May
The brainchild of creator Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram|Alpha is a computational knowledge engine that analyzes the relationships among search terms to create an answer to a search query. It is based on Wolfram's math formula software Mathematica, a tool for scientific computation that also functions as a programming language.
Wolfram Research, the company Wolfram created, has been providing selective access to testers in preparation for the planned launch.
The Wolfram search engine is not likely to go into head-to-head competition with the likes of Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) or Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Live Search. Instead, it will provide researchers with an alternative approach to traditional searching.
"What they are doing is brilliant. This will shorten people's work time. It is a great boon for productivity," Brooke Aker, CEO of semantic search technology firm Expert Systems, told TechNewsWorld.
Jack M. Germain
TechNewsWorld
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