rahulbhagchandani

19/08/2009

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"Wolfram Alpha is the only search engine of its type developed by Wolfram Research. Unlike other search engines, it accepts complex questions and even mathematical queries as input."
Only a couple of months since its launch, Wolfram Alpha, has made long lasting impressions to tech savvies and computer gurus! If not to the most, at least to me! Wolfram Alpha is an ‘answer engine’ developed and maintained by ‘Wolfram research’. Alpha is an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data, rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer as a search engine might. As far as Alpha’s basic querying procedure is concerned, users submit queries and computation requests via a text field. Alpha then computes and logically concludes answers and relevant visualizations from a core knowledge base of structured data. Alpha thus differs from general search engines, which index (search) a large number of answers and then tries to match the question to one. As Alpha is built on Wolfram’s earlier flagship Mathematics’ product, Mathematica, it provides the user any query related to Mathematics. The answers usually present human-readable solution. For example, entering x^2+y^2+2xy as an input, will be interpreted as x2+y2+2xy. This input will give the user its alternate algebraic form, geometric figure, graph representat...
 
 

 

 
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