The Future of Research or Wasting Time
WolframAlpha is online and it's fairly interesting. It's a bit like Google meets Wikipedia but right now I'm not really sure how useful it is besides finding out random facts like that Kevin is the 39th most popular first name or that I was born under a waning crescent moon. It is still lacking some information (had no idea what to do with "Boston Celtics") so right now I'd say that it's leaning more towards time waster than revolutionary site.
The one thing it really does have over google is that it just gives information instead of links so it's easier to find basic information on things. I wonder what there goal is because it either could be the beginning of something that could put sites like IMDB in danger of becoming obsolete or it could fail to ever gain the level of specific information that those specific sites are able to deliver.