WolframAlpha : The 21st Century Search Engine for educators

WolframAlpha is a great search engine for computing answers and getting knowledge . I decided to add it to my lists of search engines that educators need to know about because of its interesting features . WolframAlpha is not , in fact , a search engine but rather a computational knowledge engine . While other search engines index web pages to look for textual matches accompanied by lists of links , WolframAlpha ‘uses built-in knowledge curated by human experts to compute on the fly a specific answer to every query .

Some features of Wolfram|Alpha

here are the basic features that underlie WolframAlpha service “

• It is free
• It does not need any login or sign up
• It interprets your input in a smart way and generate appropriate results
• It provides formulas and calculators
• It has buttons and pull-down menues to help you change what is displayed
• It provides pods with links to more information
• It has dog ears for extra information
• It also provides sources , references , and background information for extra links

What can i use WolframAlpha for ?

Here are some snapshots of what WolframAlpha creators thought their engine could be used for “
at work


at home
 
at school


at play


watch this tutorial video to see how you can use Wolfram|Alpha

That’s it about WolframAlpha : The 21st Century Search Engine .

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