Move over Google ..

May 18, 2009

Over the weekend a new web search engine entered cyberspace to compete and expand on the search functions main rivals such as Google and Yahoo! provide. Wolfram Alpha, created by British physicist Stephen Wolfram, differs from the current popular search engines in that instead of providing any and all links – relevant or not so relevant – to a search query, Wolfram Alpha calculates relevance using mathematical algorithms to output one series of relevant data. As such you can receive a thorough and detailed result from the query you entered. For example, typing in my birth date, September 2nd, 1976 brings up the following interesting data -  as you can see I’m currently celebrating my 11,946th day of life!

Check it out, it’s very interesting especially for nerds such as myself.