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Written by Adam Dubbin
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Tuesday, 05 May 2009 |
It is time for Ask Jeeves to step aside: there's a new kid on the block, and its name is Wolfram Alpha.
The Independent has declared Wolfram Alpha "An invention that could change the internet," which could equal or even exceed the influence that Google has had. The new search engine processes questions rather than keywords and provides direct answers to simply constructed queries. The results are appropriately referenced, omitting entries from sites whose data might be compromised, such as Wikipedia.
Some might fear this is a step in the direction of conscious artificial intelligence, while others may see this as a threat to the Google Empire. Me? I look forward to this new way of searching the "interwebs."
[Independent]
Adam Dubbin, TheSequitur.com's assistant managing editor, is a second year graduate student in audiology at the University of South Florida.
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