New Firefox Wolfram Alpha extension tool available

By Emma Barnett, Technology Correspondent
Last Updated: 12:23PM BST 21 May 2009

A new Wolfram Alpha add-on tool has launched on Firefox, the interent browser, allowing consumers to keep using Google, while showing the newly-launched search engine’s results on the side of the same page.

Firefox launches Wolfram Alpha extension tool: Firefox launches Wolfram Alpha extension tool

Wolfram Alpha, a new computational search engine, is designed to provide clear answers to specific questions.

Wolfram Alpha, a computational search engine, launched on Monday, May 18, and aims to return a single search result with the right answer, rather than a list of thousands of web pages, from data stored on its own database.

This new add-on, available on Mozilla Firefox, allows users to receive results from both search engines simultaneously. The Google results come in at a normal speed, while the Wolfram Alpha ones catch-up on the side.

The extension is still in is experimental stage