Ask.com

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

2

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

Ask.com (originally known as Ask Jeeves) was an American answer engine, e-magazine, and later a web search engine, created by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen and launched on June 1, 1997. The service became one of the earliest prominent search engines on the World Wide Web during the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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