If you’ve been paying attention to the tech press and blogosphere then WolframAlpha will be in your consciousness somewhere. I’m not about to attempt an explanation of it here except to say that it’s not exactly a search engine but it’s not exactly not a search engine either.
So what can you do with it? Well go here and have a play, it’s free.

Putting Spalding Lincolnshire into the search box gives the following factoids about Spalding and about Lincolnshire Illinois.
Population. Spalding = 22357. Lincolnshire Illinois = 6841
Distance between the two is 3912 miles and the flight time between them, assuming a direct path at 550mph, is 7 hours and 5 minutes.
Spalding is 13ft above sea level. Lincolnshire Illinois is a heady 659ft.
Current local times in both locations are also displayed.
In the sidebar is a link to a Wikepedia page about Lincolnshire Illinois, but no further information about Spalding apart from a link to a Google web search, which I am happy to report puts one of our websites, spaldingnet.com, at 2 and 3 under a Wikepedia page.