I know this guy from the famous symbolic manipulation program "Mathematica." His search engine's going to come out in a matter of hours or so, might be pretty cool.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/index.html

Apparently it does much more than search (I expect as much from someone like Wolfram), looks like it could be fun.

i been hearing about this for a week now its cool. Different then Google but it does complement it well.

Izumi Konata?

No.

Konata's theme is (assuming this is "1", this is "2", this is "3", this is "4", and this is "5"): 1 1 2 1 3 4 3 4 5

True, I noticed after listening to Konata's theme. What is it, then?

That would be spoilarz, I'm afraid.

The media keeps saying things like: Google has competition now, etc. etc. I tried it and it's not Google. Google returns web pages that contain the words or subject matter you're lookin for. Wolfram actually returns answers to equations, request for specific data, etc. For now I don't think Google has much to worry about.

Aye, in fact... let me rephrase my first post, 'twas a mistake. Wolfram Alpha isn't even a search engine. As it says on the site, it's a "Computational Knowledge Engine." It is completely different. So far I have found it very useful in my studies, though. It feels good, I must say, not to writhe about in internet mud and edited wikipedia entries for hours until I actually find the small bit of information I'm looking for. It will never replace google, though, when I actually do look for said internet mud.

It is rather limited when it comes to non-US knowledge.

Pshaw.

Ask him if he's skynet!!

I lold.

It's wrong about Skynet, too...

When asked what it is, it says a "Computational Knowledge Engine."

When asked what a Computational Knowledge Engine is, it says "Me."

But, when asked about petitio principii, it is entirely clueless.

I've yet to try out Google². I'm much more interested in that, since it allows multi-dimensional search.