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May 13th, 2009 at 5:22 pm

Can Wolfram Alpha take on Google?

in: HiTech
Can Wolfram Alpha take on Google?clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk

Wolfram Alpha: can Wolfram Alpha take on Google?
Millions of web users have Google’s search engine as the homepage on their computer. It’s the first thing they see when they switch their machine on and their first port of call whenever they need to find the answer to a question.
Such is Google’s dominance of the search space that any attempt to launch a rival platform is often met with a mixture of bemusement and sympathy. The problem, as many companies quickly discover, is that it’s almost impossible to beat Google at its own game. Instead, what’s needed is a fresh approach to search which can supplement Google while also carving out its own niche.
That’s the strategy taken by Wolfram Alpha, a new search engine which launches on Monday. It’s the brainchild of tephen Wolfram, a British physicist and former child prodigy who, in 1988, created the Mathematica computer program used by scientists, researchers and engineers to number-crunch huge volumes of complex data.

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