Britain better than Google - Official! (not really)
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A British physicist has revealed his plan to launch a new internet search engine so powerful that one expert has suggested it "could be as important as Google".
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Known as Wolfram Alpha, the site is an attempt to address some of the deficiencies of current web search by understanding people's questions and answering them directly.
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Natural language processing – the ability to determine – has long been a holy grail for computer scientists, who believe for interacting with machines in an instinctive way.
I'm not sure it can ever be as successful as Google with a name like Wolfram Alpha. Part of the universal appeal Google has is the way the word Google rolls off the tongue and that's why it's passed into common parlance.
