It’s coming and industry pundits are already calling it the most significant development in Search since Google. It’s called Wolfram Alpha and it’s an answer engine; and represents the first real developments towards the sematic web.
Unlike Google, a search engine which searches and finds information in the database of knowledge people have published on the web, Wolfram Alpha is a computational knowledge engine that computes answers to questions based on collective knowledge.
Wolfram Research is well known for its work in scientific and technical computation. Their product Mathematica has been consistently setting the standard in this field for the last 20 years. So it comes as no surprise that there are equally high hpes for Wolfram Alpha.
The product launches in May 09 and you can read more about the details in this review by Noval Spivak.
