Wolfram Alpha Is Good Mainly For Scientific Use.

Wolfram Alpha is a genius piece of software, but won't make sense out of everything.

The launched and hyped Wolfram Alpha is the brainchild of the American-based, Eton and Oxford-educated Dr Stephen Wolfram, a boy-genius physicist who got his PhD by the time he was 20 and who is the founder of the computational engine Mathematica.

It was described in The Independent on Sunday as "the biggest internet revolution for a generation".

In contrast with the internet trawling Google, Wolfram Alpha has aggregated and curated huge amounts of data from offline scientific sources. It's what Harvard University law professor Jonathan Zittrain calls a "computable almanac", designed to juxtapose data in myriad ways. Wolfram Alpha is a computational engine.

It does not have much value for non-scientific users.