The new Ask.com search engine, minus Jeeves the butler, encompasses a simple home page design along the lines of Google, with an unadorned list of major options along the correct side. That list is headlined 'Search Tools' and includes:
? Internet
? Pictures
? News
? Maps & Directions
? Local
? Weather
? Encyclopedia
? Ask for Kids
? Dictionary
? Blogs & Feeds
The most search feature (Net) turns up the same old list of keyword-impressed responses. An innovative bit in this section provides advised phrases (clickable) to either slim or expand your search. That's an impressive concept, if it works well. It's all too simple to be led into the wilderness with search results; Raise is giving some tools to assist short circuit that problem. The image section is kind of like alternative search engines.
The News section shows signs of being a shallow concoction, in would like of a full time editorial staff and perhaps some original content. For instance, under world news there are 3 headlines that are nearly identical from 3 completely different news feeds - Reuters, CBS and MSNBC. The notion of defining a news story as "found" could be a very little disconcerting. As is problematic with several similar news searches, a click on one story originating from the Los Angeles Times led to a page demanding that you simply register as an L.A. Times subscriber (free) so as to browse the story. Though frustrating, this can't be entirely laid at the feet of Ask.com.
Their Native search could be a well done and convenient feature. Enter a product or service (e.g. "tires") and a zip code into a probe bar, and Ask will point out a listing of local businesses that give the product, addresses, phone numbers, websites if on the market, and a map to the location. Additionally included is an estimate of the gap between your nada code and therefore the business establishment.
The Encyclopedia button can take you either to Wikipedia, or to a normal Raise search response, or both: the search results headed by a Wikipedia listing. Like the News page, this feature is a cobbled along approach to a service prominently displayed on Raise's home page.
Raise for Kids could be a well executed feature, though its news resources button takes you (or your child) to a menu of different sources, such as Yahooligan News, Time for Youngsters and CNN for Students. There is a probe bar on the kid's page that appears to figure well. A random search for "dinosaurs" named referrals and links to several academic pages on dinosaurs and a drop down menu of dinosaurs by species inviting further research. A neat feature.
Entering a term for search on the Dictionary page gets you an actual dictionary definition of the word at the high, followed by a standard list of search responses. If the definition feature is thorough, this feature functions just with going to an online dictionary such as Merriam Webster. The Dictionary possibility could be a new and positive addition to look page design.
Their Weather button was baffled by my nothing code, showing no returns. However the search results below listed a response to the zip code on weather.com. If Ask intends to supply a weather service, it should be as effective because the sites that return up on its search mechanism.
The Map service offers street, aerial and regional maps, that may be a nice selection. However a random entry of my nothing code brought up a map of a location in Poland. I've had this downside before with Google, thus Raise could be getting their address knowledge from similar sources. You've got the choice of coming into 2 locations and requesting a map and driving directions, as you'd on other major search engines.
Overall, Ask.com could be a customary search engine with some new options, some of which work well and a number of that would like any refinement.
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