Ask Encyclopedia; Everything in one

When I want to know something about certain subjects or persons, I look at the online encyclopaedia “Wikipedia”. In spite of my satisfaction about this source of information, I know since today that there is another possibility to find such kind of information: Ask Encyclopedia.

Ask encyclopedia passes several online encyclopaedias by, after a given search query. Among them are Wikipedia, MSN Encarta, Houghton Mifflin en Columbia. Often the most direct result (with picture) appears at the top of the result list. Sometimes it seems that some ordinary web results are themselves among the encyclopaedia results, which provides some noise.

The great advantage of Ask Encyclopedia is that this service is searching multiple sources at once. Also sources where the information has a high level of reliability. Wikipedia could sometimes be the opposite. This source provides anybody the opportunity to conduct their own articles. This could be harmful for the reliability.