I've tried some of the examples from the youtube video of Steven Wolfram's introduction to the wolfram language but they did not work. Maybe I just picked bad ones to try, but I was hoping to get some confirmation that I am doing things right! 

I tried Sunset and it does not recognize Today as a date.

Also I tried the natural language input for countries in south america, but it times out. In fact all natural language queries time out.

Any suggestions for me?