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.

The goal of Wolfram|Alpha is therefor not to index as many pages as possible. It clearly states that they want to collect and curate objective data only which limits the search range drastically. It shines when it comes to search queries like “weather berlin germany june 3, 1988″, “next solar ecplipse” or “us deficit” although it largely depends on how the search request is entered. A search for “current us deficit” for example will not yield any results at all while the “us deficit” query will display results.

The search engine is in alpha stage and it is very likely that it will improve over time.

Wolfram|Alpha aims to bring expert-level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest possible range of people—spanning all professions and education levels. Our goal is to accept completely free-form input, and to serve as a knowledge engine that generates powerful results and presents them with maximum clarity.

Wolfram|Alpha is an ambitious, long-term intellectual endeavor that we intend will deliver increasing capabilities over the years and decades to come. With a world-class team and participation from top outside experts in countless fields, our goal is to create something that will stand as a major milestone of 21st century intellectual achievement.

It is a Google Killer? No, definitely not. It does however provide better results than other search engines for results that can be computed mathematically.

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