Earlier this week Ask was testing a new search interface dubbed Ask X. The most insightful review I found was on Marina Garrison's Blog Search Tank.

Marina is the Research Manager at Enquiro Search Solutions, she holds an MBA and has been in the Search Marketing Industry for over 3 years.

The left column is now devoted to navigational options including keyphrase, results types and options to narrow and expand your results with related keyphrases. Some of these options were available on the original results but were moved from the right to the left side making them more visible. The lists are restricted to just a few suggestions of alternate keyphrases but longer lists are available as pop-up boxes if you click “More”.

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