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ask.co.uk: Asking for the hard sell (274 words)
by SimonFinnigan - written on 03.08.02 (Useful, 53 readings)
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I`ve not used Ask.co.uk very much recently, because I`ve just gotten plain fed up of their hard sell tactics. Yes I agree that companies need to turn a profit, but do they have to do it the way the people running ask.co.uk are doing it? The basic idea is that you ask a question in plain English, and you get a list of answers back. However, it the real world it doesn`t quite work like this. As an example of what happens, I tried asking the question "What should I do with a forged bank note". The replies included contact details for every bank I`ve ever heard of (or a few more besides), links to let you sign up for a current account with all ...

Ask? Hardly... (121 words)
by - written on 03.08.02
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After using ask jeeves a few times, you begin to realise that it does not answer questions, but instead picks out specific words(normally nouns) and searches for them. although it gives a lot of results, the majority of them are things that you wont have been looking for. also, jeeves can only answer certain types of questions. it is unable to answer comparative questions, rhetorical questions, personal questions, "how much" questions, and u cant ask it to translate, so what does that leave you? the answer is very little. (i bet if you asked jeeves that he wudnt know.) i recommend that you stick to google, its a lot quicker and more precise. Later ...

ask.co.uk: ASK - Makes Surfing Simple (246 words)
by scottyedhow - written on 20.05.02 (Useful, 106 readings)
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Thank God for ASK.co.uk, well the whizz behind it anyway. Ask has personally made surfing much easier for me as i'm sure it has for many others. One simple word can take you stright to what you want. For example, I spent ages looking for the 1901 census site, I went to Ask and typed 'Census' and it was the first thing to come up. OK, it hasn't got an advanced search facility as far as i've found, but normally its simple things I'm looking for. Simple things that other search engines can't seem to take me to. Even if you're looking for local information or sites, Ask takes you stright there. It my take a while to get used to this ...