The hype roaming around webosphere is that a google killer (yes not twitter) will be born on May 2009. The new search engine is called Wolfram|Alpha created by Stephen Wolfram. Wolfram|Alpha is built on top of 5 million lines of Mathematica code which currently run on top of about 10,000 CPUs. Mathematica is a computational software program used in scientific, engineering, and mathematical fields and other areas of technical computing. It was developed by a team of mathematicians and programmers which Stephen led. So is it really a Google Killer?According to RWW article, although it looks like it can live up to the hype, it cannot be a "Google killer" because it different from traditional search engines. 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. Based on preliminary demonstrations, When users typed a search query, Google gives you pointers to potential answers while Wolfram|Alpha will give you a computed answer. It sending us information based on what it can compute. Unlike Google which searches the web for information, Alpha searches repository of curated data from public and licensed sources. Wolfram|Alpha then organizes and computes this data with a sophisticated Natural Language Processing algorithms. Surely I will be waiting for May launching of Wolfram|Alpha. It may not directly kills Google in terms of web searches, but definitely it still be a competitor.
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