A new way to look at Data, Wolfram Alpha

After hearing about it, and a full interview with the man who created it, Stephen Wolfram on This Week in Tech podcast (see iTunes search TWIT).
I decided to, with the knowledge I had creamed from the interview, to take a look at Wolfram Alpha, (Sounds like a Blake's 7 episode title straight out of the bag). It is NOT a Google killer, Google has a little of Wolfram Alpha's functionality, but there it ends. Wolfram Alpha is a fact machine and not a search engine, using computer mathematics's to help it's answering mechanism.
So basic stuff like working out percentages, are achieved with ease. But also just one word questions like, putting your first or family name in the search field. Then after a minor waiting period, because it's finding facts not websites, and with the presumption there is something to find. Wolfram Alpha comes back with an answer like, how many people could have your name in a 1 in xxxx format, percentages of ethnic mix and so on. But this is not all it can do. Birth dates produces results, that I found very interesting.
But this is very banal compared with what inpotentia Wolfram Alpha is capable of. For student's in University, or even school this could really help in the understanding of the Sciences, and the research for learning there within. So if your parents don't understand what you have to do for your school physics homework, it might be possible to get help from Wolfram Alpha. Like I say the Potential for Wolfram Alpha is astronomical, it only gets better with amount of questions it is asked. Give it a try at http://www65.wolframalpha.com/about.html
And have fun with facts.