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Electric Monk |
This web search tool is designed to answer plain-English questions. It likes questions
containing where, why, when and how. It will locate a few (10-50) pages, with an estimate
of how well they answer your question. The low number of returned pages is intentional -
these few pages should be the ones that answer your question, unlike a keyword search that
will produce a million returns that don't. Douglas
Adams fans might recognise this reference to a device which believes everything it's
told. This web site believes everything on the web is true - should you? The search engine
cannot guarantee that the answer you receive is correct... |
Ask Jeeves |
A similar tool to Electric Monk, Jeeves works from a database of questions. If your
question is in the database, you're in luck. With a database of six million questions,
this is not uncommon. Jeeves includes a built-in spelling checker, and has a sister page, Ask Jeeves for Kids. Ask Jeeves is the source of
the selected questions that appear on the results of AltaVista queries. |
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