Wolfram|Alpha has arrived

The much awaited Wolfram|Alpha (tagged as "the google killer") was finally launched Friday evening. According to the news from CNET, the newest search engine tried to bring the service online in the middle of a perfect storm. However, networking and database problems also prevented the engine from launching as of 6 p.m. PDT, an hour after the company announced that it would go live to the world.

Nevertheless Wolfram|Alpha is now up and running and here are the screenshots from my testing of the service this morning. I tried playing with it using different keywords and the new search engine gave me some interesting results:

For keyword "Puerto Galera, Philippines": it gave me the city population, local time, current weather and etc.



For keyword "Geogravity in philippines": it returns data facts and a lot of numbers.




My first Impression is that Wolfram|Alpha results are good but the processing is quite slow (at least for some query I tested). I also experienced some failed query attempts that displays a failure message like the one below.



Although glitches during testing stage are understandable. I hope it can live the hype for the coming weeks.

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