This is the first post in a series I am starting called “Featured Website”. Every so often I will feature a website that I find useful, time-saving, or even just entertaining.

My hope is that you will learn about some great new websites that you previously may not have know about.

Wolfram Alpha

Wolfram Alpha Search Bar

Google is to searching what WolframAlpha is to data based queries.

Unlike Google, Wolfram Alpha does not search the web for answers to your query but instead but by doing dynamic computations based on their collection of built-in data. This is why it works so well with data and what makes it the perfect tool for anything related to numbers, statistics, mathematics, and science. The only downside to Wolfram Alpha is that, at first, it is not as easy to use as a search engine like Google.

I suggest you start with the examples page just to get an idea of some of the many things you can compute. Here are a few examples of some of the awesome things you can do with Wolfram Alpha.

Wolfram Alpha Examples

As you can see, there are lots of great uses for Wolfram Alpha. I urge you to check it out, play around with some searches and hopefully you will end up finding it as useful as I have.