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<# ### [Wolfram|Alpha](http://wolframalpha.com) is a knowledge search engine. PowerShell Pipeworks provides a command, Search-WolframAlpha, which you can use to find out incredibly precise information about almost anything. #### Here's a quick example of getting price performance comparisons for a stock: #> Search-WolframAlpha -For "MSFT" -ApiKeySetting WolframAlphaApiKey | Select-Object -ExpandProperty "Price History" <# The next example shows getting information about the abundances #> Search-WolframAlpha -For "Carbon" -ApiKeySetting WolframAlphaApiKey | Select-Object -ExpandProperty "Abundances" <# The Power of the Wolfram|Alpha API is that it parses the raw text data stored into each pod into objects. For instance, try running Get-Member on the results of Search-WolframAlpha "New York City" #> Search-WolframAlpha -For "New York City" -ApiKeySetting WolframAlphaApiKey | Get-Member |