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"Ask Introduces Related Questions"

This post was written by Tara Calisham: "This is a search engine I haven't mentioned in a while. Ask announced yesterday Related Questions, where you can ask a question and get suggestions for additional questions which will help your research.

I started with Why is the sky blue? I got an answer at the top of the result page, but the related questions on the right were downright weird. They included "Why Is the World Going to End in 2012?, "Why Do Dogs Eat Grass" and "Do Spiders Have Good Eyesight". Um, okay. I tried for something more obvious: When was Pearl Harbor? This time I got the answer at the top of the page and related questions that were more focused, like "When Was Pearl Harbor Bombed" and "What Year Was Pearl Harbor Built" There were related searches as well. Clicking on a related question gives you a result and another set of related searches and questions..."

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Source: Research Buzz, 25 May 2010. © 2006-2010 ResearchBuzz, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on May 25, 2010 (boomark / email).