Wolfram Alpha: 'A new paradigm for using computers and the web' - 0 views
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Wolfram and his team have built what he calls a “computational knowledge engine” for the Web. OK, so what does that really mean? Basically it means that you can ask it factual questions and it computes answers for you.
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It doesn’t simply return documents that (might) contain the answers, like Google does, and it isn’t just a giant database of knowledge, like the Wikipedia. It doesn’t simply parse natural language and then use that to retrieve documents, like Powerset, for example.
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Instead, it understands and then computes answers to certain kinds of questions.
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A scientist is launching a search engine which implements a new paradigm on knowledge searching on the web. This potentially can radically change the way we interact with the web and look for content.