Wolfram Alpha releases update, refines product

Wolfram Alpha is a search engine but not a search engine like Google--it is a computational tool that provides a broad range of data not just links to reference sources.

The update was not an interface design change or new interactive page element--it was a core code and data change.

Here is a list of new updates:

• Additional support for current and past fractional timezones
• Additional probability computations for cards and coins
• Combined time series plots of different quantities
• Implicit handling of geometric figure properties
• Support for planet-to-planet distances and “nearest planet”, etc.

In total, they produced 1,850 “code commits” and changed 591 “code files" for this application update.