Wolframalpha starts Testing

Wolframalpha is open for testing today. Some time ago, it was reported that Google is the killer, which is obviously inaccurate. The home page is clearly positioned as a computational knodge DGE engine, not a search engine ". Led the development of this engine by Stephen Wolfram, author of Mathematica, the famous mathematical software.

Currently, some samples published on the wolframalpha homepage mainly emphasize the Analysis and Processing of digital data, which is quite different from the natural language processing that is most concerned about by general search engines, after all, Stephen Wolfram is a mathematician. He must be familiar with numbers :)

At present, the search engine technology has developed to a very high level. Some time ago, Jeff Dean reviewed the history of some Google technologies. The video is here. The competition for generic search seems to be getting farther and farther away from pure technology, and more like a complex system engineering. So there is an innovative algorithm that does not play any role. Even if someone finds an algorithm better than PR, it will not help. Google has long announced its three core technologies (GFS, mapreduce, and bigtable), and PageRank algorithms have long been famous. Therefore, people are not afraid of using the enhanced versions of these products to fight with them, microsoft's Live Search has burned so much silver, but the result share is getting lower and lower, which is the best example. Who is using you?

Therefore, direct change to target users like wolframalpha may be a new attempt. Who are potential users of wolframalpha? At least from the current perspective, people who deal with numbers every day can win, such as finance, Finance, Education, and technology ...... These are all possible.

First locate the user to the high end, and then do it from the top down, which is probably the basic idea of wolframalpha. Just like the mobile phone industry, the products that really make money are low-end products. After all, they are large. However, high-end products must be available and eye-catching.

Although wolframalpha was not a Google killer at the beginning, from a personal perspective, I still hope to have a new engine to challenge Google. At least in some fields, it can dilute Google's market. The OS market also has Linux, Which is entangled in Microsoft every day. Can it make Google search an exclusive one.