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Search Engine has now become a integral part in our day-to-day life and Google occupies the premier position among all the search engines that exists in the planet. Google is always effective and successful in retrieving relevant search results from the world wide web based on keywords and can come with results only for questions that have been literally asked before. British physicist Stephen Wolfram has solved this problem by developing a new computational knowledge engine called Wolfram Alpha which is capable enough to answer any question.

Stephen Wolfram is a graduate from Oxford University and Caltech and is an expert in physics, mathematics and computational theory. He has developed a new Internet Search engine (computational knowledge engine) called Wolfram Alpha which can answer any factual question more effective than Google does. The new Wolfram Alpha engine can analyze the question and research the relevant answer based on the data in the Internet and is built over his works Mathematica and A New Kind of Science (NKS). The users can submit real-time questions like, “How many hydrogen atoms are in water molecule?” etc. Wolfram said,

All one needs to be able to do is to take questions people ask in natural language, and represent them in a precise form that fits into the computations one can do.

Of course, even that has never been done in any generality. And it’s made more difficult by the fact that one doesn’t just want to handle a language like English: one also wants to be able to handle all the shorthand notations that people in every possible field use.

in his recent post at his blog. He also mentioned this project as an ambitious one and indeed it is. Wolfram Alpha is expected to go live this May and I hope definitely it will revolutionize the Internet like how Google did. I cant wait to see the computational knowledge engine go live.