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AskJeeves will take a short while to return a result to you. The time you have to wait depends on the quality of your Internet connection at the time, but you should not have to wait more than a minute or so. Here is an example of the screen that AskJeeves presents to you in answering the question: Note (referring to the lettering in the above image): a You click on to go to the information, but at times you will see hypertext links (underlined text) too. b The is used to find other categories of information relating to the same question, but would normally take you away from your immediate topic of search (Nelson Mandela, in this case). c AskJeeves offers you the answers it has given to similar questions asked by other people before you. You could explore these if they look valuable to you. d AskJeeves also rates the popularity of the information source. For example is a 5-star rating. However, this does not necessarily mean that the information will have that value for your specific needs. e If there is a longer list of sites that it offers, you should click on the More link. f AskJeeves also gives you links to information from related searches. g AskJeeves lastly searches some other popular search engines and gives you a summary of the results it found there. You could explore these as well. Unsuccessful result? If your initial question was not answered to your satisfaction, try to rephrase the question. AskJeeves has more than likely been put off track by a word that you used in the question. This word may have more than one meaning. Try to replace this word with a different one, or ask a slightly different question.
One of the categories now offered to me is in fact Moss Animals. I am fortunate. I have come to the level of documents. I notice that there are 5 documents (number in brackets) on Moss Animals. By clicking on Moss Animals I am able to access those documents (see below) Click on the hypertext links to access the documents. However, I could go one step further. If I was specifically looking for information about Moss Animals in Africa, I could now decide to search these 5 documents for references to Africa. I type in Africa in the Search box (circled) and choose to search in just this category (small circle). Then I click in the Search button and I find the following result: Not one of the five documents about Moss Animals contains reference to Africa. My next step would be to use a different search engine that searches more widely than Yahoo. Remember, Yahoo only searches document titles. Alta Vista, a keyword search engine that searches entire document texts, finds 21 documents about Moss Animals in Africa.
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