Wolfram Alpha launch date set

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• Isn't this what AskJeeves tried to do years ago and failed miserably at ? Posted by adrianaitken, United Kingdom
• "the new search engine set to rival Google's dominance in the market"
  
  This isn't remotely designed to be a Google competitor. It's not even a search engine. It's a massive scientific and statistical database with a natural-language front-end and the ability to combine and calculate ad-hoc results from its data.
  
  What's that old adage regarding journalism... never let facts get in the way of a good story? Posted by GK, UK
• Preview of Wolfram/Alpha. Key West News as curated by Wolfram/Alpha. http://ff.im/-2K4ny Posted by Eric Logan, USA
• @ adrianaitken- oh dear, no- ask jeeves never did anything close to this, where ask jeeves searched as normal just with a simple operation to remove any question words/ the/ a etc, then displayed normal search results from that- this uses mathematical algorithms to mathematically store much more basic information logically- so it can do what askjeeves did with taking out rubbish words- but then it simply gives you a page with the answer you're looking for- rather than a list of sites where you might find that answer
  
  so this is much better for quickly finding truthful facts- but not so good for researching Posted by BHOBS1, United Kingdom
• More of a Wikipedia killer than a Google rival Posted by Lars, uk