Searching in a new way?

All,
Before much longer, we may have the opportunity to search for information, and particularly data, in a whole new way - Wolfram Alpha will debut sometime in May, and sounds interesting. Here is a quick overview, taken from: http://www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/ai/wolframalpha-searching-truth

Let me give three random examples. If you enter the query, “3/26/2009 + 90 days” you’ll get a page that gives a date ninety days later than the first date. If you enter “mt. everest height length of golden gate” you’ll get a page expressing the height of Mount Everest as a multiple of the length of the Golden Gate Bridge. If you enter “temperature in los gatos,” you’ll get something like the current temperature, a graph of the temperatures over the last week with projections for the next few days, and a graph of the temperatures over the last year.

While I'm not sure how often we might need to know how many Golden Gates equal Mt. Everest, I can think of some imaginative things to search this way, and if it's as good as doing this type of thing as I hope... It is the kind of tool that could turn out to be really useful over time.

For those of you that hacven't come across Wolfram in the past, his bio is commonly available - http://www.stephenwolfram.com/about-sw/ - and contains such things as: Born in London in 1959, Wolfram was educated at Eton, Oxford, and Caltech. He published his first scientific paper at the age of 15, and had received his PhD in theoretical physics from Caltech by the age of 20.

Once the site goes live, we'll take it for a test driev, and see what uses we might be able to make of it -

In the meantime, here is an interesting site to play around with:
http://www.papervision3d.org/demos/panorama/

More soon,
jjs