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“Ask” Search Engine

A friend of mine told my yesterday about the search engine Ask. I remembered today when starting to get my hands dirty with the Apache Axis Webservice Framework. I was reading through the User Guide and tried to run their TestClient application. However the URL for the Echo Webservice did not seem to be working. I got a connection error. So I tried googling the URL http://ws.apache.org:5049/axis/services/echo.

Zero Results!

I tried Goolge Code Search as well, – with the same result. That was when I remembered about the conversation yesterday about Ask.

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Ask gave me three result pages. I found out that there is an alternative link: http://nagoya.apache.org:5049/axis/services/echo. However, this one also doesn’t work. But at least I found out, other people had the same problem before.

I don’t know yet how well Ask performs on non technical searches. For technical searches however, it looks like a promising alternative.

2 Comments

  1. gu wrote:

    Hi,

    Could you write something about how to use sessions in php?

    gu

    Tuesday, November 14, 2006 at 03:21 | Permalink
  2. raoul wrote:

    Yes I could. I will if I find the time. But the principle is the same everywhere. Basically the http request and session scope miss process or flow scopes…

    Saturday, December 2, 2006 at 12:32 | Permalink

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