New computational knowledge online engine, called Wolfram Alpha, is meant to answer specific factual questions in a far more precise way than any search engine. For example, it will parse questions like “What is the GDP France?” or “What is the temperature in Chicago?” and rather than simply pulling up sites that have the answer on them it will compute answers and relevant visualizations on the fly. The visualizations include the display of factual data, histograms and/or other related dynamic charts.
Wolfram Alpha was created by Stephen Wolfram's company called Wolfram. The computational knowledge online engine will be launch later this month.
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