Whenever someone tells me they're building a search engine that will do things better than Google, I am skeptical. Not because I think Google does everything well, but because it is very hard to build ...

Wolfram Alpha has made some fairly big strides in its few short years of existence, but the so-called computational knowledge engine has now rolled out what founder Stephen Wolfram says is the "the ...

Microsoft's Bing search engine is getting a little help from a very smart friend. Wolfram Alpha and Bing have reached a licensing deal that allows Bing to present some of the specialized scientific ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Wolfram Research yesterday launched Wolfram Alpha Notebook Edition for ...

Microsoft's search engine Bing will soon feature results from the innovative Wolfram|Alpha web service that attempts to compute answers to searchers' questions, rather than link to web pages. Bing and ...

Stephen Wolfram, the man behind computing-application Mathematica and the search engine Wolfram Alpha, has a short attention span that's married to a long-term outlook. When asked what his favorite ...

Wolfram|Alpha (W|A) is launching a new fee-based service named Wolfram|Alpha Pro. In today’s highly competitive environment, you may wonder why W|A would ask people to pay for what many think should ...

Apple wasted little time approving Wolfram Alpha’s new iPhone app, which we hinted at last week. Just a few days after they submitted it to the store, Apple sailed it right through the approval ...

According to a report by the New York Times, Apple's voice-controlled personal assistant Siri accounts for nearly 25 percent of the traffic handled by search engine Wolfram Alpha. Joe Aimonetti ...

Stephen Wolfram’s new knowledge engine, Wolfram Alpha goes live today, providing a new kind of search for Internet users. As a result, the Internets are alive with comments about how Alpha compares to ...

Wolfram Alpha LLC announced Monday the general availability of Wolfram|Alpha, a “computational knowledge engine” available on the Web that shares code with Mathematica, Wolfram Research’s renowned ...

It seems that most people who have had the chance to use Wolfram Alpha (myself included) agree that it will do a few things to Google: it will drive it to innovate in semantic search and it will ...