A fly fishing geek’s disjointed broad brush perspective Rods and reels too high priced? Cantankerous farts told one too many newbies how it must be done? Or is A River Runs Through It just last century’s metaphor? It doesn’t matter which way you cut it, interest in fly fishing has ...

Ask.com has acquired Lexico , the company that owns Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and several other reference material properties. Many people had written off Ask when it laid off 8 percent of its staff earlier this year. This acquisition shows a new focus on answering natural language questions pos...

A new specialized search engine hopes to establish a following by enabling Wikipedia to offer natural language queries. Powerset mines Wikipedia to extract relevant facts based on questions. Is this the most niche search engine ever built for public consumption? Ask.com allows similar queries, but d...