Zooming at Ask Jeeves and Web Answers

Ask Jeeves announces the introduction of Zoom and Web Answers. The "Zoom" function is the new name for the implementation of the old Teoma right hand suggestions for narrowing or expanding the search. Ask calls it a "concept navigation tool that offers suggestions to narrow and refine your search ("zooming in"), or expand your search ("zooming out") to explore new ideas." The "Web Answers" are more shortcuts that try to derive answers from indexed Web pages. Triggered when the search query is in a question format or a specific phrase, the "result is labeled as a 'Web Answer,' and the 'answer' is highlighted" in the result's keyword-in-context extract.