Keeping track of new developments on the net is never easy, there is so much going on that usually its all just white noise. Every now and again you do come across something interesting so I figured I’d do a post in case someone else gets some ideas.
It was all over the recent Tech news that there was a new browser in town called Wolfram Alpha. This takes a different approach from Google in two ways. First is that it’s a closed system i.e. only information that is vetted by experts is allowed in, which will supposedly increase accuracy. Second is that it takes real English questions like “population of Ireland in 2008” or “convert 100 euro to US dollar”.
Having played with it for a while I’m not really impressed, but it’s an interesting idea.
