- Wolfram|Alpha for scientific searches. It promises to improve.
Wolfram|Alpha gathers data based on your search terms and presents you with the answers in a well-formatted structure, using charts, graphs and other visual aids. For example, if you want to compare statistics about several different cities, you type in their names and find out that, say, Tokyo has several thousand more people than New York.
What's cool about it?
If you're of a scientific bent, this could be a great resource, once Wolfram Research beefs up its informational sources. It lays out the data in easy-to-read, well-formatted pages that include a variety of charts and graphs.
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However, until it aggregates a lot more data, and learns to handle more complex user queries, this interesting experiment is no danger to Google.
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