Wolphram Alpha could be as important to the web as Google according to some experts. The "computation knowledge engine" is coming soon and has the ability to compute answers to questions as opposed to simply providing search result links. This system is no "Ask Jeeves", instead it is a "vast electronic brain" that can literally answer questions posed in normal language. This natural language processing is pretty serious stuff and i'm personally keen to see if this system will be more than just a tool for finding the answers to simple facts.
Interesting that the system doesn't crawl the entire www for it's information, but uses a select set of public and private data for doing it's answer crunching. Is this the future for search, or just the collected wisdom and opinion of one individual, Stephen Wolfram?
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