Bing affiliated with Wolfram Alpha

Microsoft has now united with a web tool on hailing as a rivalry to Google for providing the search results for its Search Engine Bing. Wolfram Alpha is a web tool that aims to provide the solution or answers directly instead of listing the links like a search engine. This search engine of computational knowledge search engine is the favor child of British physicist Stephen Wolfram. It is used for providing the Bing Search engine results for the areas such as mathematics, health and nutrition. The affiliation will begin rolled out in US. On the date from the launch of Bing in May, it gradually seizes the market share from other search engines. Statistics from Experian Hitwise mentioning that its market share in US is 8.96% in September has been raised to 9.57% in October. This figures puts the market leader Google in behind as 70.6% of the market.

Wolfram Alpha made itself unique from other search engines by answering the query directly without listing links like any other search engines. The tool used to answer many queries by grasping raw data from licensed and public databases. Professor Stephen Wolfram lectured about the working of search engines as people can use it to look the simple information such as Mount Everest height, or crunching the several data together and producing new results. The Wolfram group also said that the new affiliation with Bing would enable Microsoft to access massive amount of algorithms and pieces of data to consolidate it into its search results. Microsoft admit that the fitness and nutritional data in Wolfram Alpha could be expected to used by 90 millions Americans, who want to choose diet for each year. Moreover, the firm also stated that on searching for the particular food items from Bing, you will get the nutrition quick tab that let you to know more about it.

The user can also get a label of nutrition facts at down of the results page that describes all information of the food item in a very friendly and familiar format. The partnership has made successfully from the decision of Wolfram to offer an Application Programming Interface (API) in October. API’s are a set of tools and protocols that allows the third party developers to develop tools and services for a platform. Now it has drastically becomes the common among we firms such as Twitter and Facebook, who utilize this service to enhance their reach further for their own website.