Perspective is everything. All top 10 Google searches are navigational (people trying to find Yahoo!) with 4 of the top 10 related to people who want Facebook. The kind of searching people do to find websites which might contain an answer to a question, or access to a service like Facebook, is where Google excels. WolframAlpha, on the other hand, actually computes your query and provides the answer directly. It’s not a popular thing among web masters and marketers for them to do that, which is why no one writes much about it or uses it as much as they should. Kids will grow up using it for school and be much smarter than their Google using counterparts. Try: weather forecast, a domain you’re working on or 6oz chicken.

Thanks for the info. I had never heard of Wolfram|Alpha, but I now have it bookmarked and installed the Chrome extension.

Happy holidays!