"Anytime you do a search they'll tell you where the data has come from and where they're pulling it from," he said. "So you tend to get sort of a dissatisfied feeling if you've done your search and it comes up with nothing for you."Īnother problem with WolframAlpha may revolve around sourcing, he said. "It doesn't have answers to everything that you might try," he said. However, Sullivan said WolframAlpha "can be kind of finicky." "If you're trying to get facts this might be a handy kind of encyclopedia for you." "They're saying they're not trying to wipe out Google but they feel they do the kinds of searches that Google doesn't handle," Sullivan said. He said WolframAlpha was not presenting itself as a rival to Google "although they want to capture the general search audience too. "Google tends to point to stuff while (WolframAlpha) actually have some answers." "I try to describe it as a 'fact search engine' to help people understand the degree that it's different from Google," he said. "We got off to a late start, but so far, so good," it said.ĭanny Sullivan, editor-in-chief of, said in a telephone interview with AFP that WolframAlpha is a "really interesting tool." WolframAlpha had been scheduled to kick off at 8:00 pm Friday (0000 GMT Saturday) but was late out of the gate because of what was described on the company blog as "some kinks." "You type your input, your question and WolframAlpha produces a result." "The basic idea of WolframAlpha is very simple," the 49-year-old Wolfram said in an online presentation of his venture, which went live for a test run on Friday.
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Unlike Google, which takes a query and uses algorithms to scour the Web and return a series of links to relevant websites, takes a query and crunches through its databases to return answers. Wolfram, who earned a PhD in theoretical physics from Caltech at the age of 20, is careful not to call his latest invention a search engine, describing it instead as a "computational knowledge engine."
While not a traditional Web search engine, a challenger to Google emerged on Friday - WolframAlpha, named after the man behind the venture, British-born computer scientist and inventor Stephen Wolfram.
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