UK Times: ‘Should Google be quaking in its boots?’ with WolframAlpha
The new service, available at wolframalpha.com, was previewed several months ago amid industry speculation that it could be a “Google killer”. Dr Wolfram, however, is at pains to point out that his brainchild is a “computational knowledge engine”, not a traditional search engine.
A physics prodigy who earned a PhD aged 20, Dr Wolfram, 49, founded Wolfram Research, in Illinois, which develops advanced software called Mathematica, used mainly by scientists. Mathematica has built up a number of databases and Wolfram Alpha is an attempt to bring them to a wider audience. The service is free but the company plans to include advertising eventually and to offer paid versions with extra features. Dr Wolfram said that Wolfram Alpha was a “long-term project” and he hoped to broaden the databases that it uses.
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