Wolfram Alpha is a new search engine, unlike Google it’s a search for facts and not websites. For instance type in your favourite artist, in my case Ani DiFranco, unlike Google which gives a list of websites the first of which is Righteous Babe Records – Wolfram Alpha however returns:

There’s also a side link to Ani DiFranco’s Wikipedia page, unfortunately it’s not perfect type in “Henry VIII’s wives” and Wolfram Alpha returns Wolfram Alpha isn’t sure what to do with your input, whilst Google’s first result is The Six Wives of Henry VIII from the Tudor History website.

As I said Wolfram Alpha isn’t perfect, but it looks promising and offers something different, and don’t forget what Google was like in it’s early days – I’ll be using Wolfram Alpha over the next few months to evaluate how useful I find it.

Hat Tip: The Guardian.