As I watched an introductory video for the WolframAlpha launch, my memory raced back to when I first saw the internet in the early 90′s and told my wife how it was going to “change the world”.
WolframAlpha isn’t a search engine like Google, it’s something completely different. In my opinion there is a place for both as they do things differently … but if this gets hold this will change the world. It’s offers a completely revolutionary way of looking at data and for the average person to explore relationships.
As Danny and I discussed today, we can in our heads imagine how the search works at Google, but we have no idea how this works … but it is DAMN AMAZING.
Almost immediately I was Skyping, and twittering my friends telling them to watch the introduction movie.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html
Go see it now … I think we might just be seeing another billion dollar company in the making… In fact Danny and my prediction is it will take only a couple of years.
Once you’ve done that, go over to Tinker and join the discussion I just started
UPDATE: Oh sorry, I meant to say. Popular rumour is it will launch tomorrow.
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Wow what a great resource… can’t wait to see it up and running.
Brilliant..when I look at some of the questions typed into google direct from my daughter’s homework assignments. This will be right up her alley.
It’s great at helping with hang man and cross words
try typing in ch_ck_n and it will give you all sorts of word choices.
Seriously though, the thing I like is how it shows you the relationships between different data.