Wolfram Alpha is not a search engine. No searching is involved here
Complimentary To Google, Not Competitive
While I think technically that Wolfram Alpha will be pretty amazing — and indeed a huge new significant tool that people should consider — It remains a specialized search tool, and general searchers — which are among those Wolfram Alpha is targeting — typically do not go directly to such tools.it will still face a hefty awareness challenge.
Sound amazing? As I’ve said before, I’m pretty jaded about search. Any number of would-be Google-killers have come and gone without gaining traction.
Wolfram’s specific that the service isn’t aiming to be a Google-killer or even considers it a traditional search engine that competes.
“We are not a search engine. No searching is involved here,” he said. “The types of things that people are currently searching for have some overlap [with Google], but it isn’t huge. What’s exciting is that we have a whole new class of things that people can put into a input field and have it tell them what it knows.”
