formerly known as Ask Jeeves

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• formerly known as Ask Jeeves

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How does Ask.com rank its results?

• ExpertRank
• subject-specific popularity
• identifies topics or clusters the experts on
  those topics
• ranks results based on the number of same-subject
  pages that reference it

In other words, its based on the information on
the page and what other pages use it as a source.
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Searching Basics

• Not Case Sensitive
• all keywords are understood to be lowercase
• Automatic AND
• automatically adds AND between each search term
• Word Order
• searches from left to right and will affect your
  results

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Search Tips

• Phrases
• enclose terms you want to be kept together in
  quotation marks
• Related searches
• suggests related searches to guide you to
  additional results
• Questions
• Ask.com search technology responds to questions

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Search Tips

• OR
• finds results that include either of 2 search
  terms
• OR must be uppercase
• connects synonyms, similar concepts

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Advanced Searching

• Limit Results by
• Domain (.edu)
• Page Modified (last week, last 2 weeks, last
  month, etc.)
• Word Order
• Unwanted Words
• Location of Words

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Results

• Web pages
• Images
• News
• Videos
• Blogs

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Ask.com Help

• Site Features
• Search Tips
• Advanced Search Tips