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The Power of Wolfram Alpha - Now in a .NET API

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Update: Here is the direct link to WolframAlpha.net . In an ongoing project of mine, I needed access to a good source of information that is free, powerful and provides some sort of API. My first thought was on Wolfram|Alpha , a powerful search engine that have thousands of databases filled with useful information and a really great interpreter that tries to guess what you mean by the 22th president of the USA . If you have not yet tried Wolfram|Alpha, I highly encourage you to take a look at it.   The results from Wolfram|Alpha when looking up "Google stock" Wolfram|Alpha has a REST based API that outputs beautiful XML data ready to parse. They really put some work into making it easy to use, so I though it would be a no-brainer to find an existing C# library that would parse it and give me objects that I could work with. However, it turns out that there are only a few of them, and only a fraction of those support the 2.0 API that Wolfram|Alpha introduced back in