A couple of days ago, I talked about Wolfram|Alpha, which is making its way in the knowledge search universe. On a different search engine note, I found yesterday that Google wouldn’t load for me, and for a good few seconds, I was completely stumped as to where else to go. Google is so integrated into my online experience and the little box in the top right of my browser makes searching so easy.

The Wolfram|Alpha search engine went live today, and it’s really, really cool. It’s not meant to be any kind of competition to Google, and in fact, links off to the Goog if you want to find web links related to your search term. Wolfram’s mission is to collate knowledge and give you hard facts about a given subject. For example: Searching for my own name gives me information on how popular it is, age distribution, expected number of people alive with that name, etc.