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title: AnswerBus
date: "2002-02-27T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1421
description: I evaluate AnswerBus, an early natural language search engine from the University of Michigan, comparing its automated question-answering capabilities to the then-popular AskJeeves for retrieving specific information from the web.
keywords: [answerbus, askjeeves, natural language processing, question answering, search engines, information retrieval]
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Is [AnswerBus](http://misshoover.si.umich.edu/~zzheng/qa-new/) better than AskJeeves?