Wolfram | Alpha search engine changes how we find answers

Google has trained many of us on how to structure our search queries in order to get the results we want. Let’s say I want to find data to generate a graph of the temperature in Italy for the past seven years. I am not going to try searching for graph of the temperature in Italy for the past seven years in Google. I might try something like temperature data Italy using only the keywords for what I am looking for. This works well in many areas,but also means that for people who don’t know what keywords to use,or when to use  ’+’or ‘-’or “”in their queries to filter their results,they can find Google quite frusturating. Wolfram|Alpha seems to be a giant leap towards being able to find answers to factual questions,using real sentences and not keywords. It may not have access to the multitude of data sources Google has available to it,but it seems much smarter at presenting the results in the easiest way to understand to the viewer.

Beyond that,it seems to be also seems to be challenging Wikipedia,by being able to provide detailed information that I would usually go to Wikipedia for information on (molecular weight of caffeine anyone?). The site is still in private beta,but it is said to release sometime this month,so I am definetly excited to see what comes out of this. Is this the next thing in search? (Found on LifeHacker)