Living in a world almost completely dominated by google, it is tough to seriously consider any other search engine out there. It is clear that google has beat yahoo, bing, msn, and any other company like it. However, there is one company I think that they have yet to surpass, and that is Wolfram Alpha. We have all dreamed about a search engine that you can simply just type in your question and it gives you a straight forward and correct answer, even though they boasted this capability this obviously did not come with Ask Jeeves, but it has become a reality with Wolfram. It couldn't be more correct in stating that it is a computational knowledge search engine because you can literally type in any question and it will give you an answer, without having to look through a bunch of of worthless search results. Just as amazingly, if you type in any subject, it will immediately give you the lowdown on whatever you desire. Type in "Apple" and it assumes the most popular result, Apple computer, so it gives you the stock results and other various information. Not to worry though, if you were looking for the fruit apple, it anticipates such and places links to varying compounding subjects at the top of the current results. Needless to say, the design for something as complex as this would be extremely mind numbing to really understand, but they have managed to wrap into such a delightfully simple package like that of google. I have been following this company even before the engine it was released as a beta as my biggest complaint is just that more people don't know about it. It's kind of this hidden gold mine on the internet that absolutely no one knows about, but hopefully they get the word out to more people soon enough. Straight forward answers? That is something that Google just can't compete with.