It’s not enough that Microsoft has the PC market cornered with its OS; it’s striving to get a piece of the Google market as well.  Its Bing search engine is getting some help from a noted web tool developer, Wolfram Alpha, to give Bing better search results.  Unlike Google and other search engine results where you get pages of websites relevant to your search subject, Bing takes this a step further by actually answering your questions directly. 

Wolfram Alpha calls this a “computational knowledge engine” that differentiates itself by grabbing data from licensed and public databases to answer search queries. The new Bing resulting from this technical partnership is expected to be beta-tested in the US and will be limited to select topics like health, nutrition and mathematics.