Wolfram Alpha lauch

Am I supposed to click the link just because?

Wolfram makes mathemtatica, an application that does mathemtatical calculations or graphs. The alpha is a new search engine that is supposed to be able to interpret questions that people write into it and find meaninful answers to the questions you ask and give related results. Stephen Wolfram, the founder of Wolfram research, has a PhD in Physics, and since 1973 has been pursuing the field of scientific computing.

Wolfram Alpha seems like it's going to change the way that you can seek information online. Kind of like a search engine 2.0

 Ubersmurf's link is to some kind of live webcast, I think. Here is a link to a little infomercial-type video I saw on reddit yesterday that lays down what it's all about...

http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html

Pretty cool stuff.

go ask it is it self-aware, seriously

I tried to find statistics on my name, and got back nothing

Bara

I gave it a run this morning.  While it has some interesting features I found nothing compelling about it to take me away from google (with Ubiquity and FF).

Interesting . . but no more than that for me.

Only at 2:14 PM Eastern time, on August 29th.

I had misunderstood it's purpose, I thought it would be a bit more general purpose than it is. It seems like more of a computational tool than a search engine, it does interpret some language, but it's seems to be more interested in a quantitative output. 

I only got output for the frequency of my first name. My last name confused it.

I'll show you some quantitative output.

don't forget its only in its early stages