New Horizons in Search

It seems like everybody is talking about wolframalpha, an amazing new search engine that tries to infer your meaning from your question and “make the world’s information computable.” You can do some really neat things with wolframalpha like compare GDPs of different countries, calculate probabilities, track weather, stocks and lots more. 

Try some of these fun searches:

• Enter your birthday – mine’s February 24th 1981
  
• Try a math equation – try x^2 sin(x)
  
• Type in your city – Try Seattle or New York or even one like “Vancouver” that’s in a lot of different places, it’ll automatically pick the one that it thinks you mean.
  
• Type in a really, really big number like 49 tredecillion
  
• How far are you away from Tokyo? Type in Seattle to Tokyo
  

Another really neat search engine is called TinEye. Tineye matches images together! You can search for an image that you upload, or paste in a URL and Tineye will try to find images that are similar. Try it with your own images or check out the “Cool Searches” Page.