New Features On Ask Jeeves: Time to Cheer for Searchers

The latest news doing the rounds in search engine industry is that Ask Jeeves is coming out with two new features in order to facilitate searchers' process of focusing queries and getting direct answers to questions minus the hassle and complexity involved in search commands and search tools.

The two cool features added to Ask Jeeves are:

Focus or Zoom- This feature will help refine the searchers' queries by expanding the 'related topics' search suggestions that are shown in the right column of Ask Jeeves search results. Now the searchers will be presented with three categories of related topics search:Narrow your search, Expand Your Search, and Related Names

With the help of clustering technology, Ask Jeeves will identify "communities" on the net with information related to your query, and take out the meaningful concepts from those communities into the list of suggestions.

Narrow your Search Category will provide the searchers with suggestions that help them reach a particular topic or area instead of showing generalized suggestions.

Whereas Expand your search category and related names categories will broaden the search of the searchers by showing all related topics and subjects also.

The benefit of this feature is that the searchers don't have to waste time toying with different search terms and keywords for finding information. With single query, they will be able to get search results from the most narrow to the broadest of topics.

Web Answers- This feature will provide direct answers to the queries and questions put by the searchers as natural language questions. We will talk about this cool feature in detail in the next blog.

Till then Happy Reading!

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