If you have never used it, Wolfram|Alpha is a “computational knowledge engine” which equates to an online ‘computer’ of sorts, using a vast archive of information to generate facts and figures about most things. Though not a ’search’ engine as such, it represents an interesting resource to be utilised in research. It is the product of Wolfram Research (read more about them at Wikipedia here) and the man behind it, Stephen Wolfram.

For instance, did you know that the average age of an internet user is approximately 27.5 years and there are about 1.393 billion internet users in the world, with the USA having 223 million of those - about 16%, so now you know where to target those ads!

More interesting facts - Google.com apparently gets 480 million visits a day (or 5556 visits per second), Yahoo! 370 million whilst Bing gets only 160 million. Google itself has market capital of $158 billion whilst Coca-Cola falls behind, with $122.5 billion and Yahoo! a mere $23.66 billion.

So, if you are looking for numbers for anything, a presentation, research, or just trying to kill, some time check out Wolfram|Alpha here and see what it can dig up from the world wide web for you.

And of course, for people that enjoy them, a ‘mash-up’ exists. Goofram combines results from Google and Wolfram|Alpha side by side on one page. Though inputs into Google will always give results, Wolfram|Alpha can only compute certain words or phrases, therefore sometimes you will draw a blank, but in many cases you get two, very contrasting sets of results, on the same topic. Check out Goofram here.