It does indeed look just like yet another search engine – but Wolfram alpha is a completely different beast entirely, and it’s one that I’m beginning to rather like. But maybe it would be better to start with a few hard facts before I go raving about this snazzy new tool…
In its alpha release as of last year, Wolfram has just celebrated its first birthday with an Alexa traffic ranking that places it in the top 5,000 sites globally. Still early days, but I expect Wolfram will only go from strength to strength in its second year, precisely because its unique novelty is also immensely useful.
Basically, Wolfram works to calculate data for you – whether that involves mathematical algorithms (like a fancy calculator)…