Hey Google? I don’t think Microsoft‘s playing around anymore. And here’s what makes me say that: The company has struck a deal with Wolfram|Alpha to provide some of its high-powered data search results. So now Bing lets you search some seriously reliable information vetted by professionals at Wolfram Research, and Wolfram|Alpha has a very high-profile client that’ll help the company show off its mettle.

Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch wrote about the development, shortly after Stephen Wolfram made a post on the Wolfram|Alpha blog about the copious amounts of new information added to the database and other refinements they’d made to the computational knowledge engine over the summer. As Schonfeld points out, the Microsoft deal wasn’t mentioned in the post.

Schonfeld said that Bing may be the start of many licensing deals for Wolfram|Alpha, since the site has difficulty driving traffic. He feels that the site just isn’t very impressive in its presentation