A new web tool that is considered by some experts to be ‘as important as Google’ is due to be made available to the public in May 2009.

Wolfram Alpha is a free ‘computational knowledge engine’ and will answer users questions directly, rather than display web pages as with current search engine results.

“Like interacting with an expert, it will understand what you are talking about, do the computation, and then present you with the results says Dr Stephen Wolfram the inventor of Wolfram Alpha.”

Watch this space!