Wolfram Alpha Now Live (Er, Was Live)

May 7, 2009 at 5:14pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Wolfram Alpha, the much anticipated fact engine, is now live. That means, you can go to wolframalpha.com and test it out for yourself.

Keep in mind, Wolfram Alpha is not a Google competitor, it is a beast of its own. Do comment and let us know your thoughts.

For more about this new search engine, see Danny’s write up named Impressive: The Wolfram Alpha “Fact Engine”.

Update: Seems like Wolfram Alpha is having major issues. So they may have taken it back offline.

Postscript 2: Wolfram contacted us to let us know this was just a test. A Wolfram rep said, “what people saw yesterday was just a little flicker test, done in the middle of the our load testing.”

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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2 COMMENTS ON Wolfram Alpha Now Live (Er, Was Live)

sniW, May 7th, 2009 at 5:21 pm ET:

I got the following error while searching:
http://i43.tinypic.com/23l1l6d.png
As you said, it looks like they temporarily pulled the plug. Hopefully it will be back up soon though.

simons1321, May 7th, 2009 at 5:52 pm ET:

still says launching May 2009 for me

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