Entrepreneurs and innovation

Innovation is what makes entrepreneurs different from everyone else.  Entrepreneurs are innovators.  They think outside the box.  Sometimes there is no box.

Google.com has been known for having made some massive innovations to the search engine world.  Everyone knows who Google is and what they do.  If you don’t you might have been living in a whole for the past 4 years .   Wolfram|Alpha is changing the game.  Stephen Wolfram calls it a omputational knowledge engine.  What the heck does that even mean.  Basically, it means that you can ask it a question and it will calculate it for you.  That doesn’t mean that it will do what Google does and search for the answer.  It physically calculates the answer for you utilzing some amazing technology.  Check out some of these blog posts for more technical details. 1 2 3

Techcrunch explained the difference between Google and Woflram|Alpha in a recent blog post:

Wolfram Alpha is like plugging into a vast electronic brain. It provides extremely impressive and thorough answers to a wide range of questions asked in many different ways, and it computes answers, it doesn’t merely look them up in a big database.

In this respect it is vastly smarter than (and different from) Google. Google simply retrieves documents based on keyword searches. Google doesn’t understand the question or the answer, and doesn’t compute answers based on models of various fields of human knowledge.

Stephen Wolfram is an entrepreneur.  He is an innovator.  This new type of engine will more than likely revolutionize the web.  Wolfram|Alpha could have the power to help many entrepreneurs as well.  Just think of all the questions you could ask it!  You could use it to find out demographics, sales for a competitive company, or find hard answers for your business plan.

Innovation is great! What do you think of the Woflram|Alpha engine?