Q&A sites aren't the only ones we go to for answers. As we've already seen, this function has been a feature of
newsgroups,
message boards,
social media. We can ask
Siri or Google
'What is an Austin truck?' if not
'How do I drive an Austin truck?'
Perhaps ASOS can sell us something about who to buy an
Austin truck from (or perhaps not) or Magento will have something about who to buy one for. Nope, despite the fact "
Magento now powers 26 percent of all ecommerce sites in the Alexa top one million sites list; more than any other ecommerce platform."
They do have a lot of situations vacant on Glassdoor though, if you're looking.
Funny or Die proves that
entertainment sites don't handle questions. They promote tours.
Yahoo on Youtube. No time to ask whether Yahoo screen has anything about why you should (or shouldn't) buy an Austin truck.
Search engines have always been a place to ask questions and forward queries but, if you can't enclose the phrase - or, in this case, question - in inverted commas, you are likely to get only related searches and then barely that. A search on AOL Search reveals truck driver jobs in Austin, Texas. It has nothing in the first set of suggestions about 'Who drives an Austin truck?'
To be fair though, Google doesn't have answer for this one and brings up a similar list, with or without quotations. How about "Who drives Austin trucks?" Any better? No. Did I imagine we had an Austin truck on the farm? At this point you'd just put the general term 'Austin trucks' in the search engine and
hope for the best
Here we'll go along with Amazon and eBay as being search engines as our browser provides those options. My guess is that it is a long defunct manufacturer and you have to look in the right place to find those old trucks.
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We can't ask Aardvark 'Where can I drive my Austin truck?' because they were bought out by Google. able2know has two pages, the first of which is gibberish, with the only promising information being the ad telling us that we can buy Austin trucks on eBay, but we already know that.
Answerbag has the questions and answers to
What was the Coolest Car or Truck you have Owned? and
What was the first car you owned, and what do you remember about it? Both mention Austin cars from the nineteen sixties.
You need to log into The AnswerBank to ask the question but a search under the Motoring category does bring up a quiz in which a few respondents mention the Austin Princess. My guess: it's a car, not a truck.
Answerly, AnybodyOutThere, Askville and Mahalo look to be also defunct. Friendfeed was bought out by Facebook.
A search on Ask Deb is only going to bring up questions that others have asked before, hence no 'What does it take to drive an Austin truck?' so what about 'When were Austin trucks around?', 'Why drive an Austin truck?' We're not getting very far here so perhaps Deb can bring us some mention of Austin trucks at least. Well, even a generic search brings us the solitary
What is "Music Row?" and tells us, if we scroll down far enough, that
Even today, Austin, Texas has a vibrant “Texas country” music scene,
where country artists perform songs influenced not by the sounds coming
out of Nashville and music row, but by country music acts of a previous
generation. These country music artists tend to distance themselves from
the Nashville country music scene. Red herring, not the red truck I remember.
Ask Me Help Desk want you to fill out the sections before you can ask the question, stating what steps you have taken to find an answer. Belaying all that, there's a ragtag of questions that arise when Austin trucks are mentioned
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