A language that's arcane, obfuscating, and includes words that no one is entirely sure what they mean. Jeeves understands your question in your words. At last count, the directory had more than 7 million questions in the database. A Help feature is prominently displayed at the top of the home page, which includes several Frequently Asked Questions. There is no advanced search feature available.
Results are varied.
Below the returned questions are several results from other recent searcher's questions that are ranked using popularity. Each result has a colored character next to the title to indicate on a scale from 1 to 5 how closely this site may answer your question. The problem with using popularity to rank the results for a professional searcher is that a site may be very popular and discuss one aspect of the topic but may not be a credible source or very informative. That is why I think that Ask Jeeves can be limiting for a professional researcher but is can be an excellent tool to use when working with beginners and children. Ask Jeeves also provides several questions or topics from which to pick from prior to completing the search on the individual service.