It looks like the search engine-turned-answer engine Ask.com has silently launched a dedicated Indian version of its answer engine at in.ask.com. [Hat Tip - @BeingPractical] While we are not quite sure as to when the portal went live since we weren't able to find any official announcement from the company and IAC, which currently owns Ask.com, hasn't listed Ask India on its website yet, we have noticed that the site has started advertising the new portal aggressively on YouTube through sidebar banners and post-roll video ads for the past few days. We also noticed that the portal seems to have gone live in December 2010, but the site appears to have started populating content more recently. Features: Unlike Ask.com, the India site looks and functions like a search engine, featuring a minimalist homepage with a large search box where users can type in their query to get relevant search results. Whats interesting though is that the site focusses on offering discussions threads denoted by a discussion bubble at the top, followed the regular search results. These discussion might be from its own Ask Answers portal or from other discussion forums like Answers.com, or Chacha.com. So for instance, if you type in Facebook, it will say that Facebook is a social networking website and link out to the discussion thread followed by the search results of Facebook. However, why it fails is also because of the same discussion approach. For instance if I type in '200 USD in INR' in a bid to do…
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