Using these two tools that he's already built, Wolfram realised he could build a new model for search engines that goes beyond previously suggested methods such as semantically tagging things, a method proposed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the world wide web.

But Wolfram said there's another way, analysing data and implementing methods and models, as algorithms, that "explicitly curate all data so that it is immediately computable".

He added that Wolfram Alpha is "like plugging into a vast electronic brain", and it offers impressive and precise answers to users' questions, without only looking up into any database for the purpose.

Wolfram has demonstrated the new search engine to Web pioneer Nova Spivack, who labelled the engine as important for the web as Google, but with a different purpose.

"[Wolfram Alpha] doesn't simply return documents that (might) contain the answers, like Google does, and it isn't just a giant database of knowledge, like the Wikipedia," . "It doesn't simply parse natural language and then use that to retrieve documents, like Powerset, for example."