jtara - 6:01 pm on Mar 3, 2008 (gmt 0)

I'm really not a big fan of teoma's algo. The results seem stale when compared to Google & Yahoo.

That's not because of the algorithm. That's because they can't afford to crawl as often as Google. Nor can they afford to index in as great a depth as Google.

Unfortunately, both of these issues limit the usefulness of Ask. You just can use Ask for searches on current affairs, etc.