Web Search–Ask Jeeves
Ask Jeeves Releases List of “Smart Answer” Shortcuts
In April Ask.Com went live with a new look and a few new features. One of them is called Smart Answers. This service offers you the chance to type in a word or two and get an answer directly on a search results page. For some searches cases a search box and direct link to specialized database is embedded directly into the results list. Since Smart Answers was introduced an official list of the keywords to activate Smart Answers was not available. Today, Ask.Com provided ResourceShelf with a complete list of Smart Answer triggers. In some cases you can save a few keystrokes by removing words like what, of, for, the, etc.
-Search Weather (beta)
What is the weather in Paris? (Note: Weather “city name” also works.)
-Search Pictures
Pictures of Mountains (Pictures mountains also works)
-Search News
News about George W. Bush
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-Local search tools
-Zip code (beta)
90210
Zip code for Silver Spring
-Country maps tool
Map of Sri Lanka
-Driving directions tool
Driving directions
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Popular content shortcuts:
-Baby names
Baby names
-Software downloads
Download Ad-Aware
-Movies
Movie times
Music downloads
Download MP3
-Song lyrics
Song lyrics
-Oscars
History of the Oscars
Who won best actor in 1997?
-Recipes
Recipes for soup
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Reference tools
-Holidays
When is Labor Day?
-Capitals
What is the capital of South Africa?
What is the capital of Vermont?
-Translation tool
How do I say thank you in Spanish?
-Dictionary look-up tool
What does serendipity mean?
-Science fair
Science fair projects
-Thesaurus
Synonym (term)
Value of pi
Value of pi
-Acronyms and Abbreviations
What does NBA stand for?

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