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Here’s the Best Dang Search Engine I Know Nothing About

You may have been hearing some hype lately about a new search engine, Wolfram Alpha. (Danny Sullivan has some commentary, just in case you don’t know what I’m talking about.) You can’t actually use it right now, because you’re one of the unwashed masses (wow, used that phrase twice already today!)

The creator, Stephen Wolfram, did a demo earlier this week at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. They posted a video of his presentation, which was essentially an hour and 45 minutes of watching Wolfram talk while typing on his laptop. In other words, you didn’t actually get to *see* the search engine work.

Yesterday, TechCrunch alerted us to the fact that the Berkman Center released a 10-minute excerpt of the talk with actual screen shots of the search engine doing its thing. All well and good, but the video’s so blurry on my laptop that Wolfram may be poking around on Amazon.com for all I can tell. Oh, well — I’ll just sit here and wait …

Full post as published by Jenkins Webblits on May 01, 2009 (boomark / email).