The most eagerly anticipated new player in search in some time, and possibly the most publically known new search engine since the somewhat abortive launch of Cuil, has now gone live.
Built on Wolfam’s Mathematica application, WolframAlpha is actually not calling itself a Search Engine as it offers little in the way of links ot resources. Instead, it aims to give you the facts you are looking for rather than the places to find them.
The server responses are a little flakey at the moment, but I imagine that its just being hammered with a first day release. Nice to see they can have a sense of humour about it too.
