Is Wolfram Alpha a Google killer?

Google search, according to experts, is one of the best services for the entire existence of the World Wide Web. Despite this, the era of simple Internet search is coming to an end. Fast answers to their questions are important to modern users. Moreover, the issue of the most relevant pages, which may or may not contain the necessary information, suits them less and less. Wolfram Alpha service fully meets the current requirements of Internet users. Internet experts predict it will soon be more popular than Google.

Wolfram Alpha, created by British physicist Stephen Wolfram, is a free program that directly answers users’ questions by displaying the result as an answer, not a list of pages. The technology that powers the program may become available to a wide audience as early as next month.

The program receives information from two different types of sources. First of all, the search goes through open and closed databases. Then, if necessary, there is a search for dynamically changing information, such as news feeds, store prices, exchange rates, weather forecasts, etc. Therefore, the answers are the most relevant at the moment. Of course, the system will be wrong, especially during the first months after launch. All of these errors will be handled, resulting in higher search levels.

“It’s like talking to a specialist. The system will first understand what you are talking about, then it will calculate and show the answer to your question,” says the author of the program. “Wolfram Alpha is like a powerful electronic brain that not only searches for answers in its database, but calculates them” Currently, terabytes of information, mainly scientific, are placed in the system. Work on Wolfram Alpha continues.