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WolframAlpha

Google gives you links that may lead to whatever that you are trying to find.  On the other hand, WolframAlpha allows you to query its complex engine in computational form.  Let say if you type “how big is earth in miles” in Google, you get 28,400,000 links more or less, and you yourself have to sift through this incredible amount of links before you get to the right web-page that has an answer of how big is earth if it is to be measured in mile.  To find answers to this sort of questions, it is may be best to use WolframAlpha.  If you type “how big is earth in miles” in WolframAlpha, you get a result of 3956.6 miles and other various conversions.

WolframAlpha is not something that is competing against Google, but it’s something new and refreshing.  You can use WolframAlpha for quick computational questions (search queries that can be computed), and in this sense WolframAlpha is not a replacement of Google.  Sometimes it’s better for you to land on the right web-page that has thorough details about the topic that you’re searching for, and Google can offer you the links to the right web-pages for your topics.

In a way WolframAlpha is like a prototype web AI (Artificial Intelligence), and this web AI tries to answer the best it can with a preset algorithmic data.  Type “wine” in WolframAlpha and you see a generic answer  to wine.  Try to type “wine” in Google, and you’ll see something else.