Search engine news

Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves) is a search engine that allows users to enter questions in plain English. Includes a helpful "narrow your search" feature. Ask.com has significantly improved and should be high on any information seeker's list of first places to find answers and websites. http://www.ask.com/
Google Scholar. Beta version of this Internet search tool that Google claims "provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations." http://scholar.google.com/