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It is a new search engine WolframAlpha itself generates answers – Mosaic – News

New search engine WolframAlpha able “to fly” is to create the desired response, as radically different from the already well-known search engines such as Google, which can find only the information already existing in the network.

how long will it take to reach Saturn, for example, the speed of light? Online system for computing knowledge “WolframAlpha immediately gives the desired answer – 75 minutes. Asking questions can program conventional language, as if we were talking with the man. Of course, while a network search engine understands only English.

WolframAlpha created by Wolfram Inc, headed by the British physicist and mathematician Stephen tungsten. While the Internet is only a test version, new has a chance of success. Here the user simply does not work with index database search engine, receiving aid request any data, but only communicates with the system.

The new development is a “computational engine of knowledge” . To calculate the correct answer search system uses data from many sources including public databases, licensed catalogs and encyclopedias. These data are analyzed and processed using the algorithms of 5-6 million, after which the system is the answer to that question.

Wolfram Alpha is the basis for computing the mechanism of one of the most popular applications of computer algebra – Mathematica. It is suitable for analytic transformation and the numerical calculations. However, the program can take into account fresh information, for example, connected to news, weather or stock quotes. Another program can solve complex equations to create scientific graphs or statistics to predict trends.

“People can use the system to search for simple facts, such as the height of Mount Everest, or some complex details, such as projections for the economic development of a market or country,” – said author.

Of course, at this stage, the system clearly needs refinement. Replying to a query about the president of Russia ( “Russian President”), the search engine displays the date of the presidential timing of Dmitry Medvedev, Vladimir Putin and Alexander Rutskoi, completely ignoring Boris Yeltsin. For questions, typed in Cyrillic letters, the machine said that Wolfram Alpha “now does not understand the Russian language”.

The developers intend in future to make the system more balanced, away from the scientific emphasis on data analysis , redirect it to work with data on politics, culture, society and other fields.