Computational search engine Wolfram Alpha is debuting its Android App in the Android Market today, simultaneously launching with the new T-Mobile G2 Android phone.
Similar to the iPhone app, WolframAlpha for Android is available for $1.99 in the Android Market. The app features the ability to search with a voice keyword, includes ten trillion data elements of knowledge, and tens of thousands of computational models.
WolframAlpha’s allure is the engine’s ability to provide you detailed numerical data on a vast variety of subjects including math, science, engineering, health and nutrition, geography, economics, linguistics, people and history, sports, and music. For example, you can enter a math problem into the search engine, and it will return with the correct answer. Or you can type in a type of food, and the search engine will return the nutritional data.
It’s probably a good idea that the search engine avoided pricing its Android App at $50 as it did initially with its iPhone app (which was eventually slashed from $50 to $1.99 after less than stellar downloads). This more moderately priced app on Android phones should bring a faster rate of adoption.
Wolfram Research is building a computational knowledge engine called Wolfram|Alpha for the web to be launched in May 2009. The product will contain data in various fields including physical sciences, technology, geography, weather, cooking, business, music, etc. in order to provide answers to questions that users input. Its language interface will accommodate variations in how users frame their questions, such as the use of abbreviations. Wolfram Alpha’s vision is to create a system which can do for formal...
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