askjeeves.com/ask.com

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Finding things online. That's what the Internet is for! Where would we be without search engines? Google, Yahoo, Bing... But askjeeves.com has taken a different route. It's a search engine where... more

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12 of 12 Ciao users found the following review helpful

f18nfz

ask again 21/07/2007

User recommends the product

Advantages professional layout, good image search
Disadvantages dull layout could be more fun/attractive and searching not as accurate as google

ASK.com is trying to be one of the great competetive search engines, like google, msn and yahoo. Now taking up Tv Advertising its popularity seems to fluctuate however it is still not in the most visited websites (yahoo being first, google being second).. Ask.com has developed a great new feature which allows you to preview the page before visiting it, this is unique to ask.com - however this is not available for all websites, but is fairly up to date. Annoying thing is that they try to show off with these features but the key concept that they do not understand is speed. Yes the results page ... more
5 of 5 Ciao users found the following review helpful

wiseoldowl

Member since 15/08/2000

Reviews written: 96

Good results, but unreliable 18/08/2000

User recommends the product

Advantages very flexible, fairly quick. usually finds what you want
Disadvantages the site you want is somewhere in the 99 you dont want!

Ask Jeeves any question, and you will get an answer. Usually you will get anything up to perhaps 100 answers. Somewhere in the mass of answers, you will find the web site which gives you the answer you want. If you hit the right one first time, do the lottery quick, as your luck is most certainly in! The odds are you will wade through a number of irrelevant sites until you find the one! Success will to a large degree depend on how you put the initial question. I find it takes some experience in phrasing the question to get only pertinent results! ... more
1 of 1 Ciao users found the following review helpful

HeyWhat

Ask jeeves but make sure you Shout 14/07/2000

User doesn't recommend the product

Advantages none
Disadvantages loads of irrelevant info

Jeeves is a helpfull butler type character who intelligently answers any questions you may ask him. Well so you would think wouldn't you. Well in reality he should be pensioned off a bit rapid or at least his hearing aid batteries should be replaced. On asking a question you are presented with a list of possible options covering the question you asked if ya lucky. You write what you want as a question so this totally confuses the poor old chap and you end up with a load of rubbish with nothing to do with the Key word you typed or worse still he hasnt heard of who or what your asking about ... more
1 of 1 Ciao users found the following review helpful

samj23

A very user-friendly search 24/11/2000

User recommends the product

Advantages Gives you options of fine-tuning your search
Disadvantages Sometimes the results are not too relevant

I like this search engine a lot because you can type in your search in natural language and it will give you accurate results. It makes searching a lot faster and means that you don't need to think about what the keywords are and in which order to use them. The other really cool function is that after the search is done, instead of just giving you a set of links, it tells you what questions you can ask and gives you the option of changing parts of the question. This means that if you are just searching for something in general, it could help you just a little on the detail. ... more
10 of 10 Ciao users found the following review helpful

yhwman

Nice idea, but... 10/09/2000

User recommends the product

Advantages can be useful if words in the search have several meanings
Disadvantages Advertising everywhere, when it fails it does so badly

Ask Jeeves is certainly based around a novel idea, namely natural language searches. Unfortunately it often doesn’t work very well, and just ends up redirecting you to the results of an Altavista or something similar search but with Ask Jeeves advertising at the top of the screen (An annoying trick they do with an external link from their site). When it does come into it’s own though is when you are searching for a term that can have several meanings – here Ask Jeeves can differentiate, with a little help from you. For me though, it’s my last port of call in a search before giving up. ... more