A new type of search engine in town – WolframAlpha
Ever since finding out about WolframAlpha.com, I’ve been playing with it and I must say it’s pretty amazing and addictive.
WolframAlpha(tm) is a new type of search engine – or what they call “computational knowledge engine”.
Rather than trying to explain what it is and what it does in words, lets have a look at a few different searches I did today:
This is what I got when I searched for Microsoft:
http://www10.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Microsoft
And searching for home loan gave me this:
http://www10.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=home+loan
Where is Myanmar, my country of birth?
http://www10.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Myanmar
Typing in domain names gives you host information and stats:
http://www10.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=eisabainyo.net
It is a currency converter too!
http://www10.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+AUD+in+USD
Next Monday falls on:
http://www10.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=next+monday
And what I am having for lunch:
http://www10.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=tuna+sandwich
Looking for complementary colors?
http://www10.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sky+blue
Hours to seconds; this will come in handy when you are coding
http://www10.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=5+hours+to+seconds
And last but not least, a question that we all ask from time to time: would you be needing your umbrella today?
http://www10.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=weather+in+sydney
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