The Wolfram|Alpha website describes the new search engine as “… the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone.  You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer.   Based on a new kind of knowledge-based computing…”

Need to know the square root of 8,499?

 

Thank you, Wolfram|Alpha!  Bill Clinton is the new US Ambassador to Haiti. While I can think of several predicaments he might get himself into there, I don’t know that much about Haiti, so I check Wolfram|Alpha: 

Well, you can certainly use Wolfram|Alpha as a homework resource. But the name is kind of cumbersome. It doesn’t roll off the tongue like Google, Yahoo, or Hulu. Tomorrow, you may not remember the name Wolfram|Alpha when you search for it on the net. For the next few weeks though, W|A will be the talk of the Internet.

So, how does it stack up to Google otherwise? Well, your idle searches for “titties” on Wolfram|Alpha turns up:

 

and “upskirt pics” brings you this message:  Wolfram|Alpha isn’t sure what to do with your input.

Of course it doesn’t know what to do with this question! It’s like talking to the Forty Year Old Virgin about scoring with chicks. WOLFRAM|ALPHA is a nerdy version of  the Internet search engine.  Ever since Microsoft retired MS. DEWEY, Internet searches really aren’t very much fun anymore.

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