Have a question? Wolfram Research’s latest creation has all the answers! The US based company has launched WolframAlpha.com, which attempts to answer all queries against an inventory of documents. And apparently, all the answers are derived from actual facts!Wolfram Alpha’s ultimate objective is to make all systematic knowledge accessible to the public.

Drawing on a massive database of information consisting of numerous terabytes, the system combines knowledge, and presents it as a completely new package. The services that Wolfram Alpha provides include answering question, predicting future behaviour, cross-referencing data types and solving equations.

So-called “computational knowledge engine” boasts of access to an extensive repository of information. The final figures are 10tn pieces of data which are ingeniously filtered through 50,000 models and algorithms. Well with these numbers it surely seems like a gigantic catalogue.

The matchless search engine is based on Mathematica, a popular software amongst engineers and scientists. The software designed by Alpha’s very own author Stephen Wolfram crunches data from its users and gives out relative results.

The searches are sourced from some of the esteemed and trustworthy sources – from CIA’s World Factbook to the United States Geological Survey and even the Chambers Biographical Dictionary, to name a few.

Though Wolfram Alpha is great on science and maths it seems perplexed by queries pertaining to social sciences or even popular culture. We know that WolframAlpha.com is surely going to add up to our virtual intellectual quotient. In fact I see a revolution of sorts which will fuse.

But will it survive is the question?