I just finished an article from the Huffington Post (you can read it here that was discussing whether or not Google was/is a miracle or a death sentence for news writers. I love Google, I think its a fantastic device (I even think the non-Google search engines are pretty great) and I'm sure that I do not want to go back to pre-Google days where I had to read information out of an out-dated encyclopedia. However, this new search engine that is being invented Wolfrom|Alpha. Granted, I'm not completely familiar with how this new device is designed to work but I have been told that it will give you everything you need to know about a topic immediately, no search results to filter through. Well my first question is: Isn't that what Wikipedia is for? And second: Isn't part of the joy of getting a question answered is getting to the answer, sometimes you need to work for it a little right? One of the fundamental skills that I learned while I was in school was ...