I said, I heard that earlier this year they refocused on Question and Answering and they are no longer in the search business any more.  They are said to license some other's search engine to do the search. I think that is the right path: after all, after years and years of QA practice, they have accumulated most experience and resources on live questions and answers.  So how are they performing? Let us try it.

So we tried it today.  

打开Ask.com网页（见上图），界面简洁。虽然没有了Jeeves的形象，网站还是比前几年的界面漂亮很多，多少回归了过去的传统。两步走的界面为一次性归类所取代，减少了用户选择的麻烦，问题模板也为问题的规整化（即系统从已知问题中最接近的问题）所替代。当然，少了这第二步，对用户问题的解读可能出错，这显然加大了系统对问题的分析技术的的要求。好在多年的问答实践以及技术进步已经可以弥补这一步了。令人兴奋的是，至少在今天测试的系列问题上，Ask.com 的解答（top answers）几乎百发百中。