I started simple. I entered: How old is the oldest person? After I pressed enter, the logo above the search bar animated to show the site was churning through information. In less than a second, Wolfram gave me the name Jeanne Louise Calment, the oldest person ever recorded, who is 122.45 years old. It then broke that time down into days, centuries, seconds, anomalistic, and sidereal years.
Throughout the process I would occasionally get an error message from the site: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that..." to notify me that the site has exceeded its test load. The amusement of the "2001: A Space Odyssey" reference wore off after seeing it numerous times, but I ws typically able to resume searching within a few seconds of receiving the message.