>Wolfram Alpha is $1.99 in the Android Market, and normally is priced at $1.99 also in the Amazon Appstore (as noted previously, the two marketplaces sometimes have differing prices).
Wolfram Alpha's is mobile app that give access to the Wolfram Alpha computational knowledge engine. Not a search engine per se, it's also available online. Rather than giving a simple list of links to a search query, it attempts to compute answers to questions. It's described on Wikipedia as:
an answer engine developed by Wolfram Research. It is an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data, rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer as a search engine would.The app is described as follows:
Whoever you are and whatever you do, Wolfram|Alpha delivers insight and understanding into any facet of your life. It's a revolutionary knowledge-querying computational engine.Wolfram Alpha is a little hard to get used to for those thinking of a typical search engine. However, it has a 4.5 star rating in the Android Market. In the nascent Amazon Appstore, it has a 4-star rating as well with 42 reviews.
Wolfram|Alpha doesn't search the web; it calculates answers based on dynamic computations.
Access Expert Knowledge Wherever You Are
"It's the first step toward a real artificial intelligence." - Gregory Chaitin, IBM emeritus computer scientist
Find out how much vitamin C is in a bowl of ice cream. Learn what European country has the fourth largest population of children. Compute solutions to difficult trig and calculus problems. Balance complex chemical equations. Discover what is overhead as you gaze up at the stars. Finally crack that crossword puzzle.
Get Answers With Wolfram|Alpha:
Unlike search engines, which suggest page links, Wolfram|Alpha answers inquiries by computing structured data. Voted the Best of What's New Grand Winner by Popular Science in 2009, it is considered a monumental leap forward in knowledge extraction. Wolfram|Alpha's goal is aimed at bringing instantly accessible systematic knowledge to the broadest range of people; regardless of profession or education level.
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The Amazon Appstore requires sideloading, which means that for now AT&T devices can't use it. As we noted before, however, there is a way to at least "reserve" these free apps for installation later, when AT&T corrects the issue, as it has promised.
Amazon opened up the Appstore despite a lawsuit by Apple, which has previously trademarked the term "App Store." Microsoft has filed an appeal against that trademark, saying the term is too generic.
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