Ask USA has relaunched, following up on an older "universal search" experiment that was available for some time now on their sandbox AskX.com. They now call their integration efforts -- with all kinds of results on one page, like images, web pages, related searches or video (depending on your query) -- "Ask3D", as the Ask blog tells. "3D" is supposed to represent the three dimensions of searching: query expression, investigating results, and making up bullshit product terms for marketing purposes
digging deeply into content. It makes sense for Ask to find a search niche of their own, though Google also started to
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