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Wolfram Alpha
Soon to be launched this month is a new search engine that seems to be getting a lot of press. Wolfram Research, the company that brought you Mathematica contests that its product is not in competition with Google in terms of search, but provides services of an altogether separate sort.
Tech-savvy folk that are fluent in technobabble will be able to feed it certain queries, such as "when will there be another total solar eclipse in burma" and Wolfram's search engine will decypher the question, gather the data, and display it (hopefully) in a clear, understandable way.
What's unknown at this point is how single services sites like www.islostnewthisweek.com expect to compete.
I do need a better way to search the Web, but what I have in mind is a search engine that finds what I'm looking for when I don't know what I'm looking for.
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