Making the world's knowledge computable

Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone.  You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer.   Based on a new kind of knowledge-based computing... more »

After watching the screencast and playing around with this myself, I'm very impressed at how powerful and useful this is. I'm not sure I would say it's a "Google killer", but it definitely makes things interesting. It's certainly got the potential to compete when it comes to searching and collecting data.