A new killer in town: Wolfram Alpha is the Google Killer. Is it really a Google Killer as dubbed by some people? Although, my knowledge of Wolfram Alpha is less than limited, I am sure it is not. Some arguments supporting my view: 1. Wolfram Alpha is not available yet for public use even as a Beta. People impressions are based on previous achievements of Stephen Wolfram , Demos, an empty Web site and a blog. As far as marketing is concerned, it is a huge success: so many references in the Web before it was released. 2. Is it a Search Engine? A Knowledge Base? An encyclopedia? If it is not a search engine it is not competing directly with Google. 3. Frequently IT application Killers or Infrastructure Killers were doomed to death before their competitors they tried to kill. For examples, IBM's 9370 computers described in the nineties as VAX killers fade away about 10 or 15 years before VAX computers end of life. An article I read many years ago was titles: R...
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