Wolfram Alpha Launch Draws Near

Update: Wolfram Alpha said Tuesday on a company Web site that it plans to begin broadcasting the run-up to its public unveiling Friday evening, including "behind-the-scenes views."

"We've been rather surprised that we haven't been able to find even a single publicly available record of the commissioning of any large website," Wolfram Alpha said. "So we thought we would document our own experience." (a new way of searching and a "knowledge engine" that allows users to ask questions and receive a single, definitive answer rather than a page of results pointing to pages that may or may not have the answer (like Google does).

Wolfram Alpha, built by Stephen Wolfram (of Mathematica fame) has been dubbed a Google killer by some, and the notion has of course been debated by many. Either way, it is seeing some heavy coverage in the news again, as its official launch draws near.

Wolfram doesn't see it as a Google Killer. "I am not keen on the hype," the New York Times explains on his blog:

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