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Formerly known as Ask Jeeves, what is now known as Ask.com was one of the earliest major search engines available.

Ask.com
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A good 'pre answerd question' bank
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Very good semantic parsing for questions
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It's early meta-search feature is of questionable use now.
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Ha ha ha, it's not google.
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This report was started December 15, 2007 at 11:41 am by meNNis
with the last edit occurring January 4, 2009 at 4:38 pm by lonehunter
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Google

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Pros
  • Free, as in free beer. Or free cake
  • Excellent search. Fast, clean, simple
  • Not evil, in general
Cons
  • If Google goes evil, we're all screwed
  • Ubiquitous search creates a market for SEO which in turn leads to link spam, fake blogs, and other annoying behavior
  • Could be more open about how they work - too much of a black box
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pmacdona

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December 25, 2008
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ProSCORE
50
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2 pros
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Pros

  • A good 'pre answerd question' bank
  • Very good semantic parsing for questions

Cons

  • It's early meta-search feature is of questionable use now.
  • Ha ha ha, it's not google.

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pmacdona prefers Google over Ask.com
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January 4, 2009
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Did not agree with any pros

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  • It's early meta-search feature is of questionable use now.
  • Ha ha ha, it's not google.

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