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You Can t Ask Jeeves Anymore
he new http://Ask.com search results; Ask is offering
search engine, minus Jeeves some tools to help short circuit
the butler, has a simple that problem. The image section
home page design along the lines is similar to other search
of Google, with an unadorned list engines.
of major options along the right
side. That list is headlined The News section shows signs of
'Search Tools' and includes: being a shallow concoction, in
need of a full time editorial
* Web staff and perhaps some original
* Images content. For example, under world
* News news there are three headlines
* Maps & Directions that are nearly identical from
* Local three different news feeds -
* Weather Reuters, CBS and MSNBC. The
* Encyclopedia notion of defining a news story
* Ask for Kids as "found" is a little
* Dictionary disconcerting. As is problematic
* Blogs & Feeds with many similar news searches,
a click on one story originating
The main search feature (Web) from the Los Angeles Times led to
turns up the usual list of a page demanding that you
keyword-inspired responses. An register as an L.A. Times
innovative touch in this section subscriber (free) in order to
provides suggested phrases read the story. Though
(clickable) to either narrow or frustrating, this can't be
expand your search. That's an entirely laid at the feet of
impressive concept, if it works http://Ask.com.
well. It is all too easy to be
led into the wilderness with Their Local search is a well done
and convenient feature. Enter a work well. A random search for
product or service (e.g. "tires") "dinosaurs" brought up referrals
and a zip code into a search bar, and links to several educational
and Ask will bring up a list of pages on dinosaurs and a drop
local businesses that provide the down menu of dinosaurs by species
product, addresses, phone inviting further research. A well
numbers, websites if available, designed feature.
and a map to the location. Also
included is an estimate of the Entering a term for search on the
distance between your zip code Dictionary page gets you an
and the business establishment. actual dictionary definition of
the word at the top, followed by
The Encyclopedia button will take a standard list of search
you either to Wikipedia, or to a responses. If the definition
standard Ask search response, or feature is thorough, this feature
both: the search results headed functions just as well as going
by a Wikipedia listing. Like the to an online dictionary such as
News page, this feature is a Merriam Webster. The Dictionary
cobbled together approach to a option is a new and positive
service prominently displayed on addition to search page design.
Ask's home page.
Their Weather button was baffled
Ask for Kids is a well executed by my zip code, showing no
feature, although its news returns. However the search
resources button takes you (or results below listed a response
your child) to a menu of other to the zip code on
sources, such as Yahooligan News, http://weather.com. If Ask
Time for Kids and CNN for intends to offer a weather
Students. There is a search bar service, it should be as
on the kid's page that seems to effective as the sites that come
up on its search mechanism. option of entering two locations
and asking for a map and driving
The Map service offers street, instructions, as you would on
aerial and regional maps, which other major search engines.
is a nice selection. However a
random entry of my zip code Overall, http://Ask.com is a
brought up a map of a location in standard search engine with some
Poland. I've had this problem new features, some of which work
before with Google, so Ask may be well and some of which need
getting their address data from further refinement.
similar sources. You have the
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