WA needs the option of explicit operators, so you can specify your query precisely. For example, for financial entities, you get a drop-down menu choice of Fun

WA needs the option of explicit operators, so you can specify your query precisely. For example, for financial entities, you get a drop-down menu choice of Fundamentals, Ratios, Balance sheet and so on - but you can't specify these in a query. Eg: http://www94.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=nike+Ratios http://www94.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=nike+Ratios gives you the fundamentals, not the ratios. But you can pick one of the ratios, and get a comparison (couldn't get this to work before): http://www94.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=return+on+equity++nke+orcl+msft+java+goog http://www94.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=return+on+equity++nke...