Considered by many to be an evolutionary leap in the development of the Internet, Wolfram Alpha calls itself a “computational knowledge engine.” While it is Google-like in appearance, it is not a search engine. It does not return a list of indexed documents in response to a query. Rather it computes answers to questions based on established facts:
“WolframAlpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.”
You can watch an overview video of the site by clicking on the image below. Then we highly recommend you take it out for a test drive!
