Answers on questions

In May, the service starts, which promises to compete with search engine answers.


Developer Stephen Wolfram is a British physicist, mathematician and businessman , known to us from the computer algebra program " Mathematica ".
The launch of the resource, according to Stephen himself, will take place in May 2009 .
The Wolfram Alpha resource will calculate the answers to the questions asked in natural language (more on this below). At the heart of the Wolfram Alpha is the Mathematica engine. It incorporates a logical mechanism that can draw conclusions, having data and a mathematical model.
The mechanism of the search engine answers is as follows:

• data for the answer will be taken from a database of facts (on the creation of which the Steven Wolfram team spent several years) and a large number of mathematical models;
• The query language is very similar to English - the system understands brief queries that are similar to those used by ordinary search engine users.
• the answer is displayed in the form of diagrams, tables and graphs (if you enter ″ gdp ″ (GDP), then the graph of changes in the GDP of the country where the user is located will appear on the screen, but if you enter ″ gdp France / Germany ″, the graph of the ratio of French GDP to German for the same period).

There are more questions than answers, as is usually the case.
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