Got a question? Ask.com has the Answer!

Ask.com is an organic search engine that was originally started in 1996 as Ask Jeeves. Later, in 2005, Ask Jeeves became Ask.com. Ask.com is a place to type in any question (whether hard or easy), and allow the search engine to provide the best possible answers; it’s simply a question and answer service. Ask.com takes advantage of both the web as well as specific users who can answer your questions. It will first turn to the web, but if an answer hasn’t been published out there yet or if it has trouble interpreting your question, it will next switch gears to a user of Ask.com who is capable of answering your question. A particular benefit of Ask.com is that it delivers answers from the web quickly, and instead of just providing a link, the top of your screen will actually display the answer. (http://www.ask.com/about/)

[This was the search engine originally ('Ask Jeeves'), from 1999. Photo from Flickr, attributed to BrentDPayne. Jeeves was the valet who was displayed as the friendly character overseeing the questions posed (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4701474.stm).]