As some of us know, Google has been dominating the search engines for just over 15 years now, and they show no sign of slowing down with offering services above and beyond that of just a standard search engine.

However, recently I have been informed of a new search engine that could pose a possible, and interesting threat to Google. Wolfram Alpha seems to be the latest highly technical search engine to brace the internet since Cuil.

Some of you might have been aware of the former Google employees who broke free from Google to produce their own “Google search engine” called Cuil, pronounced “cool”. The hype of that search engine has been and gone and has shown little threat to Google, however I would like to place a little bet that the top chiefs at Google are discussing how to handle Wolfram Alpha.

Wolfram Alpha is based on natural language processing with a combination of “millions” of algorithms. The founder of Wolfram claims that...

Sounds interesting doesn’t it?

This basically means that, as well as providing good search results to your chosen keywords, it will also give you a solid answer to a question that you pose to it. For example, if you were to ask it “What is the capital of England”, it will give you the answer of “London”. Some of you are now thinking “well that’s not new, Google already gives those answers”, and you would be correct. However, ask Google “who invented the car” and the answers are no where to be seen and the user then has to find his/her's answer using the results. According to the founder of Wolfram, this is what separates their search engine from all the rest as Wolfram will give you the answer "Karl Benz".

Could this be the next 'big thing'?