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General InformationAsk
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OverviewAsk.com was originally known as Ask Jeeves, where "Jeeves" is the name of the "gentleman's personal gentleman", or valet (illustrated by Marcos Sorensen), fetching answers to any question asked.
Website URLwww.ask.com
Website Submission No, Ask.com doesn't have a submit URL option
Wikipedia Articleen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask.com
Web Site BlogAsk blog - blog.ask.com
Customer Supportsp.ask.com/en/docs/about/contact_us.shtml
RankingAsk
Ranking AlgorithmExpertRank algorithm
Search FeaturesAsk
Audio Search No
Blog Search Yes, www.ask.com/?tool=bls
Book Search No
Career Search No
Desktop Search Yes, sp.ask.com/en/docs/desktop/overview.shtml
Dictionary Search Yes
Events Search Yes
Finance Search Yes
Forum Search No
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Health Search Yes, using Health Smart Answers
Image Search Yes, www.ask.com/?tool=img
Local Search Yes
Map Search Yes, maps.ask.com/maps
Mobile Search Yes, gps.ask.com
News Search Yes, news.ask.com/news
Patent Search No
People Search Yes
Phrase Search Yes
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Product Search (Shopping) Yes, ask.pronto.com/welcome/index.do
Questions and Answers Search Yes, www.ask.com/popular-questions
Real Estate Search Yes
Recipe Search Yes, in main results
Scholar Search No
Search Alerts No
Search Creative Commons No
Search in Categorized Directories No
Search Public Source Code No
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Semantic SearchFor some of the searches
Travel Search No
TV Listings Search Yes
University Search No
US Government Search No
Vehicles Search Yes
Video Search Yes, www.ask.com/?tool=vid
Weather Search Yes
Search ResultsAsk
Browser Toolbar Yes, dl.ask.com/toolbar/moz/download.html
Highlights of Relevant Phrases Yes
Cached Pages Yes
Related Searches Yes
Thumbnails Preview Yes
Translate Searches No
Advanced Search OperatorsAsk
Logical (Boolean) operations Yes, www.searchengineshowdown.com/features/ask
Operator [-] - exclude Terms from search result (-). Attaching a minus sign immediately before a word indicates that you do not want pages that contain this word... learn more Yes
Operator [*] - search with wildcard (*)... learn more No
Operator [+] - search exactly as is (+)... learn more Yes
Operator [after:] - search for modified after a given date. For example after:31/12/1999 Yes
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Operator [before:] - search for modified before a given date. For Example before:31/12/1999 Yes
Operator [inurl:] - restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url.... learn more Yes
Operator [link:] - webpages that have links to the specified URL (link:).... learn more No
Operator [site:] - search within a whole class of sites (site:).... learn more Yes

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