Rating: B Ask Jeeves is a search engine that returns results based on a question asked "in plain English" instead of a search string. Ask Jeeves will return a group of answers to your question from its own database, as well as web pages, which it retrieves from search engines, much like any metasearch engine. Ask Jeeves contains a database of questions previously asked, and it tries to match your search to one of these. Because it has its own database of material (not exactly web sites) Ask Jeeves is not the same as other metasearch engines. Because of its peculiar nature Ask Jeeves is very good for finding specific types of information, such as a general, and broad, overview of nearly any topic. On the other hand, because of its nature, Ask Jeeves lacks the array of features presented by most search engines. Pros and Cons:
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