Learning to search smarter

1. Spelling CountsWhile capitalization doesn't matter, correct spelling will always lead you to better quality results. If you do search on a misspelled term, our spell check feature should assist you. When a potential misspelling is encountered, we'll automatically suggest a correct spelling. If this suggestion is selected, we will perform your corrected search again, thus ensuring the best and most accurate search results possible.
2. Search With Keywords or Questions
Ask search technology responds to questions, phrases, or single word searches, giving you more options and making it easier for you to search the way you want.
3. One Search Or Question At A Time
As with any search engine, our technology works best when you pose only one search question or phrase at a time. If you're looking for information on, say, spas in California and hotels in New York, you should perform two separate searches in order to receive the best results.
4. Try Searching With Synonyms To Improve Results
If provides only limited results for your search, try substituting your original search with new terms that mean the same thing.
5. The More Specific The Better
Ask can pinpoint information if you make specific search requests. We are always working diligently to advance our technologies and extend our reach into the Web; however, we may not be able to recover every specific topic you may search just yet. So, if your specific request doesn't work the first time, simply try a more general request.


I think this search engine is based on questions to achieve it s best results, they made no reference to Boolean type operators. Like above, one keyword/ question per search. My favorite is Google, you can put in questions, keywords, and use Boolean type operators.

Ask.com search help