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We use Google for finding information. But what about distilling data into something useful? We collect data all the time to sort out trends. Wolfram, now in Alpha, does this. In theory. See for yourself or read more on the ZDNet website.
Wolfram Alpha is a novel toy that is, at best, still in alpha.
I don’t see it really growing out of its tiny computational niche, largely because its keyword parser is even more limited than the datasets it manipulates–ask it “largest cities”, and you’ll get a decent list, but ask it any form of “largest american cities”, and it’ll stare back at you dumbly.
It’s a glorified calculator that can pull data from almanacs–and since Google seems to be adding that ability soon anyway…
I have read similar reviews about its limitations. And it’s actually called out in the ZDNet video. I still think it’s a good idea — whether it’s Wolfram or Google who does it — to make sense out of the bits of data floating out there in the interwebs.