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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".
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.
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.