Another week another Google killer. Last week, it was Twitter as Google killer. This week it's Wolfam Alpha. The difference with Wolfram Alpha is that it has the pedigree, engineering heft and perhaps ...

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It seems that most people who have had the chance to use Wolfram Alpha (myself included) agree that it will do a few things to Google: it will drive it to innovate in semantic search and it will ...

We can find any sort of information on the Internet with just a few clicks. Normally, we use Google Search or Bing Search engines to find information. Based on your search terms, Google provides you ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Wolfram ...

Try to say that 5 times really fast. Go ahead, try it. Well, at least it is not as difficult as Fox in Socks – man that book is a killer. This WAW is basically a means to embed Wolfram Alpha queries ...

Our monkey brains didn’t evolve to understand big numbers without some help. So when you run into an abstract figure, it’s good to have some real-world thing to compare it to. That’s why I memorize a ...

Microsoft's search engine Bing will soon feature results from the innovative Wolfram|Alpha web service that attempts to compute answers to searchers' questions, rather than link to web pages. Bing and ...

Curious to use Wolfram Alpha, but don't want to give up Google as your main search engine? Now you can use both at the same time with this Firefox extension. Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now ...

As we've discussed, Wolfram Alpha is a fantastic website that knows basically everything. But one way that people don't use it enough is when it comes to money. If you work in finance, play in stocks, ...

Microsoft is rolling out some enhancements to its Bing search engine, including some that rely on computational information delivered by Wolfram Alpha. Wolfram Alpha has developed a technology ...