Imagine what will happen if we mix Google is merged with Wikipedia? May be it will tell u the answer to any question by searching the answer over the net and presenting in a concise format.Sounds cool? well its coming soon..
Its not called WIKIGLE or Googipedia but Wolfram|Alpha.
Usually we search using keywords.But sometimes keywords don't help.We might want to ask questions like in Yahoo Answers,but the results are not great. Wolfram Alpha aims to fix this.
Stephen Wolfram who is the man behind WA,is a highly acclaimed scientist and is noted for his previous projects like Mathematica and New Kind of Science. Although the these were very technical in nature,WA is to the mainstream.
Wolfram mentions in his blog "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"
That means instead of just searching India + Economy..I can ask what is Indian economic situation in 2008-09 and instead of links I will get my info like a Wikipage.
Though it looks promising, I don't think it will affect traffic of Google or Wikipedia.But I am sure it will be a hit if it works.
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