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May 21, 2009

New Search Engine, to boldy go where Google can't (yet)

Wolf   From cnn.com:

New search engines aspire to supplement Google

"Wolfram Alpha, set to launch Monday, is more of an enormous calculator than a search: It crunches data to come up with query answers that may not exist online until you search for them. And sites like Twitter are trying to capitalize on the warp-speed pace of online news today by offering real-time searches of online chatter -- something Google's computers have yet to replicate."  Read more...

According to Wolfram Alpha, I am 16,685 days old as of this writing.  Good to know!

                                                                                        - Alison Ernst, Librarian

Posted by Librarian At NMH in Technology |

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