Wolfram, a Search Engine, Finds Answers Within Itself @ NYT

"Step 2" of the Wolfram Alpha search engine being released this Wednesday, Feburary 9th 2012, offers more than just mathematical computation.

The new version handles data and images. In a recent demonstration, Dr. Wolfram, using his computer mouse, dragged in a table of the gross domestic product figures for France for 1961 to 2010, and Wolfram Alpha produced on the Web page a color-coded bar chart, which could be downloaded in different document formats. He put in a table of campaign contributions to politicians over several years, and Wolfram Alpha generated a chart and brief summary, saying that House members received less on average than senators.

I have only used Wolfram Aplha a handful of times but was always impressed with the information it provides and how it is provided.  Wolfram seems to be going the route of research engine.

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