The highly anticipated Wolfram Alpha search engine made its debut today, although Google tossed in a little spoiler.

The webcast was apparently difficult for some to view, but you can get impressions of what happened from Between The Lines and Bits.

The site also has a new blog and Twitter account, and we’ll be looking at it more closely in the near future ourselves.

There’s more discussion on Techmeme.

Postscript: See Impressive: The Wolfram Alpha “Fact Engine”, our review of the service.

Related Topics: Search Engines: Experimental | Search Engines: Other Search Engines | Wolfram Alpha

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