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When I asked the same question, I got a series of web search results, not Wolfram Alpha results. The top result was Wikipedia's entry "List of Lakes in California" which contains a big list alphabetized by name, not sortable by surface area.

You’ve actually hit on Siri’s biggest problem - inconsistency. Sometimes it works great and others it’s a head scratcher with the exact same query. I think it is getting better though.

> The top result was Wikipedia's entry "List of Lakes in California" which contains a big list alphabetized by name, not sortable by surface area.

Works for me (at least for those where a surface area is maintained in the table). Do you have JS turned off?

I’ve found you can ask Siri to explicitly search Wolfram Alpha. Far from ideal.

I am getting the Wikipedia list (“I found this on the web”). Tried asking it to search Wolfram Alpha (which spellcheck corrected to WolframAlpha btw!) and it said it couldn’t find that info on WolframAlpha

I got the same list from Wolfram Alpha. I wonder why so many people get different results.

I tried the exact same query and got told to google it on my iPhone.