Un answer engine: Wolfram Alpha

Un answer engine denumit Wolfram Alpha http://www.wolframalpha.com/ (ceva mai bun decat un search engine dupa cumeste descris ) urmeaza sa fie lansat luna aceasta de catre creatorul celebrului program de calcul Mathematica, Stephen Wolfram.

Dacă Google stochează informaţii în baze de date uriaşe, Wolfram Alfa stochează doar algoritmii de calcul, precum legile fizicii. Dacă Google poate oferi doar ceea ce un alt om a pus deja pe internet, Wolfram Alfa poate oferi răspunsuri care nu sunt încă pe internet. (sursa )

In a nutshell, Wolfram and his team have built what he calls a “computational knowledge engine” for the Web. OK, so what does that really mean? Basically it means that you can ask it factual questions and it computes answers for you.

It doesn’t simply return documents that (might) contain the answers, like Google does, and it isn’t just a giant database of knowledge, like the Wikipedia. It doesn’t simply parse natural language and then use that to retrieve documents, like Powerset, for example.

Instead, Wolfram Alpha actually computes the answers to a wide range of questions — like questions that have factual answers such as “What is the location of Timbuktu?” or “How many protons are in a hydrogen atom?,” “What was the average rainfall in Boston last year?,” “What is the 307th digit of Pi?,” or “what would 80/20 vision look like?” (sursa)

Intrebarea mea vine dupa ce am citit cateva tutoriale SEO: cum va influenta acest answer engine structura site-urilor? Cum vor modifica/optimiza webmasterii siteurile? Google ne aduce rezultatele cautarii pe baza cuvintelor cheie … Wolfram Alpha va obliga siteurile  sa intruduca mai multe cifre? mai informatii exacte ? Va imbunatatii documentarea  articolelor? Timpul ne va da un raspuns…