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Stephen Wolfram is a British physicist perhaps best known for his work in creating the computational software Mathematica. That could all soon be forgotten if his Wolfram Alpha computational data engine proves to be the Google killer that some are suggesting. After all, it claims to be able to answer …

It looks like the browser wars may be hotting up as Microsoft has fired its salvo - it seems that by [URL="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10020157-93.html?hhTest=1"]storing our previous search behaviors[/URL] it's going to beat Google at its own game. I guess this is a different approach. [URL="http://www.cuil.com"]Cuil[/URL] appears to be trying the 'if it …

I was about to launch into a tirade on the new search engine [URL="www.cuil.com"]Cuil[/URL] but I see one of my colleagues has [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry2870.html"]already done it[/URL]. Instead I'll be the first to warn about choosing names carefully. Cuil is apparently Gaelic for knowledge and, er, hazel. That's fine and good but …

Claiming to be the biggest search engine on the web is a pretty confident thing to do on the day that your search engine launches, but that is exactly what the creators of [URL="http://www.cuil.com"]Cuil[/URL] have done today. Combining the "biggest Web index" with "content-based relevance methods" whereby results are organised …