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New British search engine 'could be as important as Google'

guardian.co.uk — A British physicist has revealed his plan to launch a new Internet search engine so powerful that one expert has suggested it "could be as important as Google".

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  • jggube, on 03/09/2009, -2/+157That's what Cuil said.
  • Dumbledorito, on 03/09/2009, -4/+81Search: In Living Color.
    Wolfram: Did you mean "In Living Colour?"
  • yocouchdigga, on 03/09/2009, -1/+48"Wolfram went on to receive his PhD in theoretical physics from the California Institute of Technology at the age of 20."

    That doesn't make me feel like a worthless, dumbass, at all.
  • inactive, on 03/09/2009, -4/+46Funny, I searched for this on Google and couldn't find it.
  • twiztidsinz, on 03/09/2009, -1/+42I hear Wondows and Goggle are teaming up
  • moominking13, on 03/09/2009, -4/+44no one wants a search engine which is 'as important' as google, people want a search engine MORE important than Google. If it is only going to be as good, don't waste your time
  • hagiaso, on 03/09/2009, -13/+52Hahahahahahahaha

    Hahahahahaahaa
  • zuiquan, on 03/09/2009, -1/+25I have confirmed that cuil is still there and it still sucks. Curiosity satisfied.
  • Gibletoid, on 03/09/2009, -0/+23Really?

    Not familiar with the genre.
  • inactive, on 03/09/2009, -0/+22People were REALLY used to Yahoo 10 years ago.
  • tomatoflight, on 03/09/2009, -0/+22I love wearing Goggles for search too
  • zuiquan, on 03/09/2009, -1/+18Thanks! I couldn't remember the name of that last search engine that was more awesome than google. Is that thing still around?
  • inactive, on 03/09/2009, -2/+19It could be infinitely better than Google and Google would still see more use.
  • twiztidsinz, on 03/09/2009, -2/+18Not knowing the name makes it hard to google it...
  • zephc, on 03/09/2009, -0/+15What, you mean America isn't a British colony anymore? Why don't people TELL me these things...
  • iamjoker, on 03/09/2009, -0/+14Looking at his previous record http://www.wolfram.com/broadcast/screencasts/ , it sounds interesting, But when something is too good to be true it usually isnt.
  • generalalcazar, on 03/09/2009, -3/+17Wolfram lives in the US, and the company is US-based. Just because Stephen Wolfram was born in England and this was reported in a British news site doesn't make this a "British search engine".

    I am also pretty sure that Stephen Wolfram did not code this entire thing himself.
  • Dumbledorito, on 03/09/2009, -0/+12Sounds more like furry sci-fi.
  • frieddonuts, on 03/10/2009, -1/+11In before someone parades their false sense of intellectual superiority by correcting your comma usage.
  • merreborn, on 03/09/2009, -0/+9Wolfram Research are the guys who make Mathematica. So while I, too, am suspect of any claim that any search engine is the "next google", at least these guys have some sort of proven track record.
  • hawarkarem, on 03/09/2009, -0/+9I know you think there's a joke in there somewhere but it didn't really make sense. Tim Berners-Lee was British, for example.
  • inactive, on 03/09/2009, -2/+10lol
  • KidKenosha, on 03/10/2009, -2/+10Well, someone has to teach you Yankees how to spell.
  • inactive, on 03/09/2009, -10/+18Let's see what the physicist has in mind. A search engine as powerful as Google, that will be the next big thing then. Google look out!
  • Hobbes24, on 03/10/2009, -0/+8i ***** love wondows
  • sparkalex, on 03/09/2009, -2/+10Cuil!
  • anthropodeus, on 03/09/2009, -1/+9judging by the power of Mathematica, which he programmed, i'm definitely gonna be on the lookout for more news about this
  • Azdak, on 03/09/2009, -2/+9All together now: Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight
  • Dumbledorito, on 03/09/2009, -0/+7Given what I know about the internet, I refuse to search for "wolframming."
  • dericko, on 03/09/2009, -1/+8Google has money.

    If anything becomes a threat to them, they'll just gobble them up.

    Besides, Google has a LOT more going for it than a search engine.
  • Amadeus2490, on 03/10/2009, -0/+7That doesn't make me feel like a worthless dumbass at all.*
  • agentsrecord, on 03/09/2009, -14/+20Doubt it. "Wolfram Alpha" sounds like a gay porno.
  • InverGoatie, on 03/09/2009, -1/+7***** you!
  • DivineMonkey, on 03/09/2009, -0/+6I love how they have to add 'British' in there....Like that really matters. Since when have the Brits done anything innovative?

    *Oh wait, i'm British....*****.
  • Walker2323, on 03/10/2009, -0/+6Google? Hell, this could be as big as Cuil!
  • DaviDTC, on 03/09/2009, -0/+6Have you wolframalpha'ed it yet?
  • chakan2, on 03/09/2009, -0/+5Oooh, but it will be so cuil
  • JustJoe4Life, on 03/09/2009, -0/+5Open the pod bay doors?
  • nutsackorama, on 03/09/2009, -4/+9Gay porn as a genre consists mostly of guys ***** other guys. ***** strokes, salad tosses, rampant buttfingering, and both violent and non-violent kissing also occasionally happen. I suggest you check this genre out.
  • Slym, on 03/09/2009, -0/+5No, a Brit invented the World Wide Web, the internet is mostly American. However, I do believe we can make claim to the computer, or atleast significant building blocks for it. Trying not to make holes for myself here.

  • eldinb, on 03/09/2009, -2/+6Oh noez, another Google killer!
  • kingmanic, on 03/09/2009, -1/+5Seems like the conceptual missing component to make Google Skynet. Stephen Wolfram Must be terminated!

    On a more serious note: they seem to stress the idea of turning human language queries into machine queries. A competent tech savy librarian could do the same thing for you for you or if you spent some time learning to use "site" "+" "-" and """ you could get better results from google.
  • Savvyman, on 03/09/2009, -0/+4"Since when have the Brits done anything innovative?"
    The thing you are using right now, the British created the Internet.
  • pitdog, on 03/10/2009, -0/+4yes, it could.

    but will it?
  • dafinux, on 03/09/2009, -1/+5switching a web address and switching an OS are just a tad bit different
  • benologist, on 03/10/2009, -0/+4You're right they'll just buy anything that threatens them, but you're wrong about what they've got going for them, it all boils down to their search engine and advertising.
  • Jangarrr, on 03/10/2009, -0/+4In after someone parades their false sense of intellectual superiority by correcting your comma usage.
  • PatrickX, on 03/10/2009, -0/+3Considering 1% of the search market is considered to be worth about a billion dollars, I'd say it's quite worth the time.
  • vertigelt, on 03/10/2009, -0/+3your double negative makes it impossible to understand exactly what it is you're attempting to say here.
  • MCCULLAH, on 03/10/2009, -0/+3please let this be awesome. I do not like google being so powerful.
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