I’ve tried to avoid the general frenzy, but please see:
http://blog.cyc.com/2009/03/wolfram-alpha.html
“It handles a much wider range of queries than Cyc, but much narrower than Google; it understands some of what it is displaying as an answer, but only some of it . . .”
“I would invest in this, literally and figuratively. If it is not gobbled up by one of the existing industry superpowers, his company may well grow to become one of them in a small number of years, with most of us setting our default browser to be Wolfram Alpha.”
