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?

Their content is always lengthy and just good stuff which is awesome considering the lack of good quality content about entrepreneurship out there in the ‘tubes‘.  Their blog is something to be valued for sure but their forums also have a wealth of users who are more than willing to help you out with any problem or question that you might have.

YE’s blog has a great Entrepreneurship University category on there blog which is filled with some great series.  They help guide you through some harder topics including: How to Build Link to your Website, What a Business Plan Should Look Like and How to Build a Business in a Recession.

I have personally used the forum (startupstudent.com) and have been extremely impressed with the responses that I have received. I also subscribe to the blog as well.  I have found both really useful and I have enjoyed what they have offered.

The blog and forum together is an unbeatable resource when it comes to learning and networking with fellow entrepreneurs.

Don’t take my word for it check them out at http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/blog/

What do you think? What resources do you find helpful? What are some blogs that you follow?