By Erik Small -

I have to admit it was just a few days ago that I heard about a new search product that some speculate it could rival Google.

Well, here it is folks — it just launched today.

Wolfram Alpha is the name of the service and the internet search world is talking about it.

Check it out for yourself:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/

I’m already reading about how Wolfram Alpha is hitting only a ’niche’. In their own words, this is the goal of the service:

“Wolfram|Alpha’s long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.”

“As of now, Wolfram|Alpha contains 10+ trillion of pieces of data, 50,000+ types of algorithms and models, and linguistic capabilities for 1000+ domains.”