Beyond Semantic Web Posted by John Assalian on May 3, 2009 This month a new software launches that has trillions of data points and millions of lines of algorithms — it is a new search engine and provides specific answers in a way that any search engine hertofore has NOT been able to do. Going beyond tagging and the semantic web, this is an attempt to provide one of the Holy Grail ideas of the 20th Century: Intelligent Computers that can actually answer questions. These are some big promises, and the nature of the promise makes it worthy of evaluation. Check it out here: http://blog.wolfram.com/2009/03/05/wolframalpha-is-coming/ The engine, which will be free to use, works by drawing on the knowledge on the internet, as well as private databases. The engine, which will be free to use, works by drawing on the knowledge on the internet, as well as private databases. I like the mixture of the private database combined with the public internet. Similar to the model of ITDatabase.com Quotes: “For those of us tired of hundreds of pages of results that do not really have a lot to do with what we are trying to find out, Wolfram Alpha may be what we have been waiting for.” Michael W Jones, Tech.blorge.com “If it is not gobbled up by one of the industry superpowers, his company may well grow to become one of them in a small number of years, with most of us setting our default browser to be Wolfram Alpha.” Doug Lenat, Semanticuniverse.com “It’s like plugging into an electric brain.” Matt Marshall, Venturebeat.com “This is like a Holy Grail… the ability to look inside data sources that can’t easily be crawled and provide answers from them.” Danny Sullivan, editor-in-chief of searchengineland.com “For those of us tired of hundreds of pages of results that do not really have a lot to do with what we are trying to find out, Wolfram Alpha may be what we have been waiting for.” Michael W Jones, Tech.blorge.com “If it is not gobbled up by one of the industry superpowers, his company may well grow to become one of them in a small number of years, with most of us setting our default browser to be Wolfram Alpha.” Doug Lenat, Semanticuniverse.com “It’s like plugging into an electric brain.” Matt Marshall, Venturebeat.com “This is like a Holy Grail… the ability to look inside data sources that can’t easily be crawled and provide answers from them.” Danny Sullivan, editor-in-chief of searchengineland.com Related