Word from Champaign, IL, the home of Wolfram|Alpha, that they have added lots of new data and features to their service.
+ 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 “nearest planet”, 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 “self-aware” questions answered (e.g. "how old are you")
+ More consistent handling of sidebar links to Wikipedia, etc.
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