Official Ask Application Coming To iPhone – Search For Answers Nearby

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The popular question-answering search engine Ask is due to submit their official iPhone application to Apple, which is designed to answer your questions on the go.

The app will let you ask questions either by typing them in, or by speaking them, and then offers up the most likely answer based on its index of more than 500 million question and answer ‘pairs,’ from hundreds of thousands of web sources.

On downloading the application, users will automatically be enrolled in Ask’s social Q&A private beta, which allows you to approach the Ask.com community for answers to more complex questions.

One of its most interesting features, however, won’t be introduced until version 2. It’s called ‘Nearby Answers,’ and uses your location to allow you to ask questions about places nearby. For example, you can ask a question about your local theater or restaurant, and your question will be routed to people nearby, or people have answered similar questions about those places in the past.

Also planned to feature before the end of the year is the ability to ask questions of your friends on social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

It certainly sounds like a fantastic application, and I can’t wait to see how it works. We’ll be sure to let you know when it’s available for download.

[via TechCrunch]

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