Wolfram Research shakes Google in its Booties

Stephen Wolfram, famous mathematician and author,  made an announcment today that soon a new type of search engine will be unleased upon the world. In a talk at Harvard, the man repsonible for educational technologies like Mathematica, the scientist demoed a new search engine that returns results of merged data. Titled “Wolfram Alpha”, users of the software will be able to generate results that not only point to prior data, but supposedly will generate new content based on your search. 

Even more interestingly, Google announced a new feature today claiming to have similar results, focused on demographic information. This is a new phase in search engines, which will someday allow all of us to be the amazing plucky tech dorks assembling cross referenced data instantly on tv crime dramas. 

This is going to be an ongoing story to watch, but for now watch this harvard link for an upcoming demo video. 

[via NYT]