Google crashes Wolfram Alpha debut party by Stephen Shankland, Webware (Apr 28)
Several are trying very hard to dig into the web.
+ Stephen Wolfram is developing Wolfram Alpha engine - "designed to process data from controlled, vetted sources of data--many not on the Web--then present the results in a way that lets people dig deeper into the subject. It's something of a cross between a graphing calculator, repositories of scientific data, and a system to interpret questions posed in human terms. " Watch for it later in the year.
+ Google has just released a feature to search public data and graph it. This is US only. It's described more fully at the Official Google Blog - Adding search power to public data.
"Thus far, Google's service includes data only from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Division. "
Posted by Gwen at April 29, 2009 11:58 PM