A handy new add-on to Mozilla’s Firefox browser merges the brainy Wolfram Alpha search engine to your Google search engine. When performing a search, results from Wolfram Alpha’s search engine appear on the side of your Google page.
This add-on is a great way to combine your more pedestrian, every-day searches with the more intellectual Wolfram Alpha search engine that actually answers questions and solves problems. Google on the other hand, spits out pages of search results that require you to scan through the pages and links.
The addition of Wolfram Alpha to a Google search doesn’t slow down the search process and offers a complimentary enhancement to your searches. If your job requires extensive research or you just like surfing the web for arcane material, Firefox’s Wolfram Alpha add-on is worth a try.
(Update: A commenter asked for a link to the Wolfram Alpha add-on. Here it is: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12006
The add-on is still experimental, but so far has worked great. If you want to add your two cents about an experimental add-on, you need to register with the Mozilla add-on site
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