Have you seen this? Microsoft's new virtual librarian, "Ms. Dewey," who gives you feedback and sometimes attitude about your questions: http://www.msdewey.com/ You need speakers or headphones to hear her.
There was a segment on public radio's Marketplace a couple of weeks ago: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2006/12/13/PM200612138.html (you'll need Realplayer to hear, but you can read the transcript). Pretty silly, IMHO.
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Basically a search engine with a sexy interface. Too slow, and the results are not very good. No competition for Google, unless you're lonely and want to pretend you have a friend.
And it's fun to stump her. I did a search on the name of a medication and she said "Are you as perplexed as I am? Actually, I'm not perplexed, but you look like you are."
On the content end of things, I did a search on "How do I get an appointment with immigration," and not one of the results that came up -- eventually -- pointed to Infopass. (Incidentally, Google did, but Ask.com did not.)
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