WolframAlpha a billion $$ company in the making?

by Stephen on May 15, 2009 · 3 comments

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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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1 Gino May 15, 2009 at 10:48 pm

Wow what a great resource… can’t wait to see it up and running.

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2 Chris May 20, 2009 at 9:01 am

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.

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3 TUI May 21, 2009 at 9:26 pm

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.

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