Wolfram Alpha launches soon

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Wolfram Alpha wikipedia entry

It is an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data, instead of providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer. If this works the way they're saying it does, then this will be HUGE.




Type in a query for a statistic, a profile of a country or company, and instead of a series of results that may or may not provide the answer you’re looking for, you get a mini dossier on the subject compiled in real time that, ideally, nails the exact thing you want to know. It’s like having a squad of Cambridge mathematicians and CIA analysts inside your browser.