Wolfram|Alpha searches databases, the underlying informational building block of the web, and calculates and graphs available data for a given query. Their stated goal sounds like Google’s mission statement but with the addition of the words “systematic” and “computable.”
“Wolfram|Alpha’s long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries.”
