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What is WolframAlpha?

Posted by Michael under Search

WolframAlpha is an innovative step to make all logical knowledge immediately computable and accessible by everyone.

 

Since the beginning of the computer age, people presumed that a computer could answer any factual question. But that has not been the case. Computers can do things that are beyond human capability but up until now they could not answer questions. British physicist, Stephen Wolfram has developed a system called WolframAlpha that is designed to change this.  

 

The idea behind its development was to create a platform that can compute whatever can be computed about anything!  

 

Unlike Google, WolframAlpha is a search engine that filters information and data stored in its own vast databases to answer specific search queries. The aim is to return a single search result with the right answer, rather than a list of thousands of web pages which may or may not contain the information requested, as is the case with other search engines like Google. 

 

WolframAlpha is one step ahead of google in providing a powerful resource tool for academia. Currently, WolframAlpha contains 10+ trillion of pieces of data, 50,000+ types of algorithms and models, and linguistic capabilities for 1000+ domains and is a result of more than 20 years of development at Wolfram Research.  

 

Where Google may be a very helpful Librarian, WolframAlpha is the genius kid in the class that always knows the right answer and is happy to share that information with everyone.

 

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