An Easier, More Intuitive Way to Search.
Ask.com offers many unique and innovative features and tools to help you get the information you need quickly and easily.
Search Tools
News Search
Find the latest news stories from around the world.
Sample Searches
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Top Stories
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Football News
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Tony Blair News
Try a news search for yourself
Search Tip:
You can browse today's
top stories by clearing all text from the search box and by choosing the "News" option. Search for news about a specific subject at any time by adding the term "news" to your query.
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Blogs & Feeds Search
Search the blogosphere using our unique algorithm that combines Ask.com search technology and Bloglines subscription data. We index the most popular blogs that people across the web subscribe to daily to ensure higher-quality results and minimises blog spam.
Sample Searches
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Slashdot
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Premiership Football
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Climate Change
Try a blog search for yourself
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Currency Converter
Use our simple on-line tool to calculate currency conversions with more than 100 currencies at the latest exchange rate.
Sample Searches
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Today's exchange rates
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£100 in $
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Online Currency Converter for Euros
Try currency converter for yourself
Search Tip:
Enter the two currencies you would like to convert or simply type "exchange rate" or "currency converter".
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Smart Answers
Ask.com Smart Answers provide key information right at the top of the page. Smart Answers can be found on the web results page of many searches, like for a band or famous person, and contain a brief bit of information and links to more information. You can get quick access to sports scores, movie times, weather, dictionary results, translation, conversions, and more.
Sample Searches
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Liverpool FC
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Planet Mars
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What's on TV
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Famous People Search
Find information about your favourite celebrities and historical figures.
Sample searches
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Elvis
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Muhammad Ali
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Winston Churchill
Try famous people search for yourself
Search Tip:
Just enter the name of the famous person you are looking for.
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Horoscopes Search
Find Your horoscope forecasts, romance compatibilities and astrological profile...
Sample Searches
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Horoscope
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Aquarius Astrological Profile
Try horoscope search for yourself
Search Tip:
Just enter the name of the horoscope you are looking for or simply type the term "horoscope".
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Dictionary & Thesaurus Search
Find quick definitions or easily search online dictionaries, encyclopedias', thesauri and more.
Sample Searches
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Define search
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Definition of smart
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Synonym of beautiful
Try dictionary search for yourself
Search Tip:
Just enter "define", "definition of", "meaning of" or "synonym of" plus the word you are seeking.
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Stocks & Shares Search
Find up-to-date share prices and stock market information for companies trading on the FTSE 100, AIM, Nasdaq and Dow Jones exchanges.
Sample Searches
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IACI Stocks
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HBOS Shares
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FTSE Index
Try a stock search for yourself
Search Tip:
Use a stock ticker symbol or the company name plus the term "stock quote".
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Music Search
Find biography and discography information, download pictures and find the latest products for all your favourite bands and musicians.
Sample Searches
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The Beatles
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Kings of Leon Lyrics
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David Gray biography
Try music search for yourself
Search Tip:
Just enter the name of the band or musician you are looking for.
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Recipes Search
Ask.com have partnered with Waitrose to provide access to over 4000+ recipes. You can search for recipes within various categories such as: course (eg. starter or dessert); a main ingredient (eg. rice or pork), or a nationality (eg. French or Italian).
Sample Searches
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Recipes
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Dessert Recipesx
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British Recipes
Try a recipe search for yourself
Search Tip:
Enter either the course, main ingredient or nationality plus the term "recipes".
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More Ask.com Tools
MyStuff
The fast, free, and easy way to save, organise and share your search results.
Sample Searches
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Save anything from the Web - your search results, Web pages, images and more.
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Organise your saved items in folders, and add notes for your reference.
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Publish, blog, or email your saved items. You choose whether you want to keep MyStuff private or share on the Web.
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Search MyStuff and instantly 're-find' anything you've saved.
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Sign up to
access your saved data from different computers;
import your bookmarks or favourites, and
upload your pictures from your desktop or mobile.
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Binoculars Site Preview
If you have broadband and want to avoid unnecessary trips between your search results and the destination sites you are seeking, then the Binoculars site preview tool is for you.
This feature allows searchers to preview websites by simply mousing over the binoculars icon within their search results. Easily figure out if you've found the site you're looking for without having to leave uk.ask.com - saving both time and energy.
Go to the Binoculars Site Preview FAQ for more information.
Important Note: This feature is only available for broadband-including DSL and Cable high-speed connections.
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Zoom: Related Search Terms
Narrow or broaden your search with possible alternative search terms which appear on the right hand side of the
Web and Images results page.
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Narrow Your Search: helps you to drill down into topics that are specifically related to your search
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Expand Your Search: allows you to explore topics that are conceptually related to your search
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Related Names: presents a list of names that are conceptually tied to topic options within the "Narrow Your Search" and "Expand Your Search" lists
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Automated Translation
Have you ever wondered what the Germans really do during the Oktoberfest? Or what the French really put in their cuisine?
Now you can browse millions of foreign web sites without speaking the language. Simply do a search of, say, Musee du Louvre, and watch for the links that say [Translate this Page] next to results in French. Click on these links and Ask.com will translate automatically and instantaneously the entire site for you. Browse, click around, and use all the features a French reader would. Except that thanks to Ask.com, everything is now in English.
Curious about how we do that? Read the FAQ on Translation Tool.
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Web Answers
For select queries Ask.com will deliver a direct answer response – where a [Web Answer] is shown for web search results. Just click on the more web answers link and you will be provided with several different websites containing the answer to your query.
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Advanced Web Search
Advanced Search features allow you to specify the type of web results you want. Try it out and see what the
Advanced Search features can do for you.
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Make Ask.com Your Home Page
Find what you are looking for faster by making Ask.com your home page.
Follow the instructions below according to your web browser.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 and under:
• Go to the "Tools" menu and choose "Internet Options."
• On the "General" page, the first entry reads, "You can change which page to use for your homepage."
• Enter http://uk.ask.com into the space for "Address" and click "OK."
If you're using Mozilla Firefox:
• Go to the "Tools" menu and choose "Options."
• On the "General" tab, enter http://uk.ask.com into the space for "Location(s)" and click "OK."
For Opera users:
• Go to the "Tools" menu and choose "Preferences..."
• Go to the "General" section and in the space for "Home page:", and enter http://uk.ask.com click "OK."
If you're using Safari:
• Go to the Safari menu and choose "Preferences..."
• Go to the "General" section and in the space for "Home page:", and enter http://uk.ask.com
• Close the Preferences window.
For Netscape Navigator or Communicator:
• Go to the "Edit" menu and choose "Preferences."
• At the top of the Preferences box, you will find "Navigator Starts With" along with three options. Click on the button to the left of the "Home Page" option.
• Further down, the box reads, "Clicking on the Home button will take you to this page."
• Below, at "Location," enter http://uk.ask.com and click "OK."
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Image Search
Shopping Search
Weather Search
Video Games Search 
Movie Search
Conversions Search
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