Wolfram Alpha Goes Live

Welcome back everyone!

As you are no doubt aware the Wolfram Alpha next generation search engine (or fact engine as it is being called) is now live, It’s a lot of fun to play around with and the functionality is very, very impressive.

The sheer scale of the different things it understands such as actors, films, songs and even maths equations takes a lot of time to truly appreciate and Google Squared is going to have a lot to do before it matches it! Continue reading

A ‘Brand’ New Google

In case you hadn’t noticed a whole new Google has been brought to life in the wake of Searchology 2009. It has been a while since Google made an update this big so let’s take a look at exactly what changed!

Search Options

Search options is the name for the new sidebar expansion that Google have intergrated into search, you can bring it up by pressing the “show options” link just below the Google logo on a search results page. Continue reading