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"Here's another thing that'll make Wolfram Alpha more fun than Google: updates. When some aspect of Google's search gets updated, we don't necessarily notice it, and it's not usually easy to make an ordered list of the exact updates that happened. However, Wolfram Alpha is not a search engine; it only handles the data that was fed to it, and thus its data set (and the algorithms for its manipulation) will get updated every once in a while. \n\nSo, the first major update to Wolfram Alpha is here, and the list of changes and improvements is quite long. Here it is in its entirety: \n* Additional linguistic forms for many types of data and questions    * More comparisons of composite properties (e.g. \"US military vs. UK\")    * Combined time series plots of different quantities (e.g. \"germany gdp vs population\")    * More complete handling of government positions (e.g. \"chancellor\", etc.)    * Updates to country borders for India, China, Slovenia, Croatia, and others    * Updates to naming for certain politically sensitive countries and regions    * Additional subcountry regions (e.g. \"Wales\"); many more to come    * Additional support for current and past fractional timezones (e.g. \"Iran time\")    * City-by-city handling of U.S. states with multiple timezones    * Updates to certain European currencies (e.g. for \"Cyprus\" and \"Slovakia\")    * Some additional historical events; many more to come    * Additional probability computations for cards and coins (e.g. \"2 or 3 aces\")    * Additional output for partitions of integers (e.g. \"partitions of 47\")    * Implicit handling of geometric figure properties (e.g. \"ellipse with area 6 and major axis 2\")    * Additional support for Mathematica 3D graphics syntax    * Additional support for stock prices with explicit dates    * Support for planet-to-planet distances and \u201Cnearest planet\u201D, etc.    * Extra information when comparing incompatible units (e.g. \"ergs vs. newtons\")    * Improved linguistic handling for many foods (e.g. \"love apple\")    * More mountains added, especially in Australia    * Support for many less-common given names (e.g. \"zebulon\")    * More \u201Cself-aware\u201D questions answered (e.g. \"how old are you\")    * More consistent handling of sidebar links to Wikipedia, etc.\nOut of these, the first one is probably most important; the fact that Wolfram Alpha now understands more linguistic forms means it'll understand you better, and thus provide better results overall. Also, the fact that Wolfram Alpha now answers more self-aware questions probably means we'll soon have another list of Wolfram Alpha easter eggs for you; if you've missed the first three lists, here they are: \nMore Wolfram Alpha Resources from Mashable:\n\n- Top 10 Wolfram Alpha Easter Eggs\n- 10 Even Better Wolfram Alpha Easter Eggs \n- 10 Brand New Wolfram Alpha Easter Eggs\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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