Ah good point I had forgotten ask. Do they still maintain their own index? I recall a while ago they were discussing dropping it as a cost saver. EDIT - Seems

Ah good point I had forgotten ask. Do they still maintain their own index? I recall a while ago they were discussing dropping it as a cost saver. EDIT - Seems they no longer do. http://searchengineland.com/ask-com-to-focus-on-qa-search-end-web-crawling-55209 http://searchengineland.com/ask-com-to-focus-on-qa-search-en... Apparently they have been using someone else's index for some time, but maintain their own over specific question/answer sites.