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 ... Read review
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, ... ...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 loads very fast, but not as fast as google and why does it have a special page effect (on loading the results the page appears slowly getting thicker from its translucent state)
The layout of the results is also not as attractive compared to google, it looks plain, with few colours, its nice that they put ... more
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 loads very fast, but not as fast as google and why does it have a special page effect (on loading the results the page appears slowly getting thicker from its translucent state)
The layout of the results is also not as attractive compared to google, it looks plain, with few colours, its nice that they put the search bar on the side like windows have it on their operating system search. (i.e. when you search in windows not on their website)
Ask.com have a great domain name, its easy to remember, and their homepage looks fine, sort of but they need to re-design the search results page and maybe take up a system like adsense and go into advertising to become more popular.
The image search is good - they have search suggestions, they also offer related names on the left, and on the right (if its a famous name) they give blogs about that search, an encyclopedia profile, videos etc. The image search also gives an option of searching adult only - so provides a fairly strict/secure search. However the only categorising tools for images are size, file types and colours, - file types is good as i have not seen this before, the size option is also good. Ask.com seem less greedy than google for money, they keep their sponsored results right at the bottom so they are unnoticeable!
A survey i did recently asked me to compare search engines, and i remember finding that msn.com had the best image search and were also excellent for web results, ( i was expecting google to be the best ) Ask.com came out alright for web results - and the preview tool was what scored points for me. Im not sure its a good thing that askjeeves lost the butler, as that was ask.com's selling point, that made it unique at the time. However the homepage does look rather neat and professional, however most people arent too concerned about the professional appearance they just want something attractive. - They should take up a scheme like Google where the word google on google.com's homepage changes according to a theme at that particular time like christmas or st patricks day.
ask.com produced 154 web results for a particular search compared to google that produced 786. ( the search was mopages - the name of my free website) Does this result indicate that google is better? Well yes and no, yes google is better because they had my website come first - as its a more popular search, but both of them had a lot of irrelevent websites under the search for mopages, and most of the websites are dead links appart from mine ofcourse! So in this respect alot of results were not needed and i did find my site within the first page of ask.com's results (though not the correct homepage - i was looking to find www.mopages.co.nr/www.mopages.tk) neither of which were there. Though i am annoyed that google say did you mean mocpages at the top! mind you the 'did you mean' feature is very useful usually!
Ask.com like google has also got image, video, news, blog, shopping searches, it does not have book, map (etc.) searchings.
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!
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wiseoldowl 18.08.2000
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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 ...
samj23 24.11.2000
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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 ...
HeyWhat 14.07.2000
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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 ...
yhwman 10.09.2000
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Advantages: More colourful than google Disadvantages: Very rarely actually finds what you're looking for
I've been asking Jeeves quite a lot recently, but he seems to be able to my questions with even less intelligence than my dog!! He sometimes manages to finally get you where you want to go, but only after a long process which actually ends with you looking with a different search engine in the first place. It does seem like a total waste of time, and you might as well just start off in one of the others from the beginning.
The questions that it ... ...answer to your question or subject are just really stupid. I'm yet to actually look for something that has any relivance at all to these questions.
The site doesn't really look that bad. It starts off looking good, with just a simple question box. Here you then type your question. "Why are you so stoopid Jeeves??", I say. He then sets me up with some online IQ tests.
I don't see the point of ASK, when it just finds you links on other search engines. ...
BJEEE 20.12.2000
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