This weekend, English scientist Stephen Wolfram activates the first intelligent search engine, capable of understanding the meaning of questions put to it. Is this the biggest thing since Google? Can a search engine respond coherently to a complex question? Mathematician Stephen Wolfram believes it can, and will prove it by putting Wolfram Alpha, the first intelligent search engine, online this weekend. More than 5,000 Internet users hope their complex questions will be answered too. They’ve been following the site’s launch live since Friday evening on justin.tv and Twitter. This new type of competitor to Google should be fully operational on May 18.It’s been a month since Wolfram Alpha buzz invaded the Web, via a YouTube video. In the video, Wolfram presents his new "baby" to an enraptured audience. To the question "What is the unemployment rate in France?", the engine responds in numbers, pie charts and other charts. Wolfram Alpha even understands the query: "How fast does hair grow?"
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