Thursday, May 28, 2009

wolframalpha the new way of searching.

I understand we are a generation who is confused if google is a verb or a company. Where searching is synonym with Google. Challenging Googles supremacy is foolish.
But I personally think it has been beautifully challenged by http://www.wolframalpha.com/

I think the site attacks the mind set. Its a total new way of searching. Ofcourse koshnix tried the same thing but I personally believe what koshnix tried is what wolframalpha perfected. Basically if I am searching for a thing. I would appreciate if I get the complete info at one click. This precisely is what it does. The down side is either you hit the jackpot or return empty handed.

Background:

  • Its basically a search engine.
  • It can very well be a Google killer.
  • Designed by a prodigy who earned his Phd at I think 21 from caltech.

    Imp
  • I think it either gives you complete accurate info or gives useless data.
  • It actually tries giving a complete holistic view

    Good Example:
  • Try searching India or Adobe and you will see the diff.

Bad Example:

  • Try typing Tanay Anand in Google and wolfromalpha. ( Google gives me what I need and wolfromalpha gives me what I don’t)

I know its a fancy word but I think it has the potential of being an answer to google.

Till then

Happy Googling

1 comment:

Tripti said...

haha, the distance between tanay and anand is 5159km

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=tanay+anand