For those of you not yet in the know there is a new search engine on the Internet recently. Well to be precise its not really a search engine. Wolfram Alpha describes itself as a “Computational Knowledge Engine”There have been quite a few different opinions floating about concerning what the site is and isn’t I’ll let you in on some of my thoughts.

A little decoder ring physics and you can come to understand that this websites database is driven entirely by data. Comparative data, general information, cold hard stats. Any way you slice it this site is not meant to erase or supplant Google. Its meant to be an entity of its own. Read the rest of this entry »