Ask

ask.com is a great alternative to google. I would reccomend ask to anyone looking for something that is difficult to find on google. Ask.com is also great for educational material, they have a fact of the day which i have learned many intresting and wierd facts from. ask.com is good if you would like to search the answer to a question, as you can type the question into the search box instead of one or two words of it, however you might prefer trying yahoo answers first.

In conclusion, ask.com is a good alternative to google however when compared to google ask.com is not amazing.

Thanks for reading my review.
Michael Beeson

A few days back I was reading some comment from the man who owns the company which owns Ask, also known as Ask Jeeves in the UK, whence it originates. The gist of it was, that if asked were he considering selling the service, he would reply that it had no value to him, so why would it have value to anyone else?

It's a shame, because Ask isn't appallingly slow or inaccurate and can do well up against Google. For example I chose an entirely random keyword, "lemoncello", to do a search on both Google and Ask. Ask correctly returned the most likely subject of my search, which is limoncello, the drink, but also included results about Lemoncello, the Scottish runner. Given that the latter was what I had actually typed, I think Ask offered me the right balance between what I'd asked for, and what it thought I might have meant. On the other hand, Google decided that I'd made a typo and offered me only the drink, not the sportsman, but with an option to choose at the top of the page, and Bing didn't know anything about the sportsman anyway. I preferred the way Ask thought on this one, and it returned results of equal relevance and at equal speed. It looks good, too, somewhere between the minimalism of Google and the glamour of Bing.

I think in the end there will be room for only one search engine, and this isn't going to be it. The original philosophy was fine - ask a question and get an answer, as opposed to just looking something up - but it didn't catch on. Google tapped into the zeitgeist and Ask Jeeves didn't, but not for want of trying.

What the $#*! is wrong with this dumb $#*! site! I am seriously wanting to sue this site. The don't answer your questions, and every time you ask a question stupid $#*! that is not on topic comes up! Like what the $#*!! Stupid $#*! like this happens all the time! Don't go to this site and waste your time. There are tons of ads that try to get you and hack you, and it's almost like they don't try to work on the site. And when I say every time, I mean EVERY TIME! Your question will not be answered. And if so, it won't really help. Go try for yourself. But I am telling you, don't go to this site. It is a waste of my time, and it will be a waste of your time

First, I take issue with any company that installs software on my computer without my permission. Second, it resets my home page and search engines periodically. Third, it is impossible to get off your computer. I tried Revo Uninstaller, and Ask.com jammed it for over 1/2 hour. I tried to uninstall it through Windows Uninstaller (My Computer) and, although you allegedly uninstalled it, it is still there. It shows no traces anywhere on the computer in programs and does not show on the uninstall list. In essence, it is like a plague.

I looked up keys on ask.com and something ver disturbing came up
Why Ask.com and when I look up something as simple a a drawing
From bfdi it came up as some random business man I looked up
"David BFDI"

It keeps happening with other things it succ so much it deserves to
Go die in a fire that crappy website summarised is

You wanting to buy a shirt online and instead you getting spam mailed
Pictures of llamas doing the hype

Also known as looking up something like a spoon and it comes up with
A very random thing like a deer's antlers or something disturbing
Or even just a bad picture or video of what look up I looked up a carrot
You're expect a carrot you're wrong it came up with a person comparing
A carrot to a coin