To get attention for any search engine all you need to do is say that it will give Google a run for its money. This surely worked for WolframAlpha and most definitely they have my attention. After reading about it today, I decided to give it a try. I conducted a couple of searches which I am mentioning here.

Since I’ve been watching old Start Trek movies daily to be ready for the latest Star Trek movie, I decided to ask Wolfram the following question.

Wolfram said

Google on the other hand handled this extremely well. The first few links returned by Google give me the information I seek.

Clearly WolframAlpha does not know much about Star Trek.  Sure no problem. I’ll give it another question. An easy one this time.

As you can see above that Wolfram does not know what to do with my input. That’s two strikes. Let’s just see what Google does in this case.

Google still does a better job. And now for my third search. This is what I asked Wolfram.

So Wolfram cannot tell me where I can find best pizza in New York. Google on the other had does a fantastic job. It gives me location of pizza places at the top and also returns search results I can click on to proceed further with my research.

That’s three wins for Google and three strikes for Wolfram. My conclusion is that Google has nothing to worry about. Wolfram has got a long and I mean a long way to go before it can even make a tiny dent in search engine space.