Posts Tagged with ‘ask’

Ask search engine is quite famous for its constant overhauls in continuous attempts to please users and increase its rather small market share when compared to search giants like Google or Yahoo (according to comScore with its 4.8% it is now number 4 in the US after Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft).
The latest attempt of such a redesign was Ask3D back in June 2007 which showed results in three columns instead of a traditional long list of links. One of the [...]

There's nothing more depressing than watching a bear cub take a swipe at a gigantic, planet-eating corporation, but that's exactly what we saw today.
Ask.com took to its blog today with an open missive titled "Ask.com Makes More Moves on Privacy." In the post, Ask.com references the letter sent to Google from 14 privacy watchdog groups including the EFF and the ACLU demanding that Google add a link to its privacy policy on their home page to comply with the [...]

Twing classifies itself as an alternate search engine and as it notes, only searches forums and forum discussions. Twing also notes that it "…aims to be the most comprehensive and highly targeted forum search engine for real people seeking real discussions and real information in real time." It will be interesting to see if it can truly bring into being what it suggests it can.
Twing, inside and out:
Not having a sufficient theory on just how Twing worked but interested enough to [...]

You may recall back in mid-summer when Ask.com delivered a message about a new search feature it planned to launch by the end of the year. Well, here we are. December 11th. And Ask has apparently made good on its promise.
The promise was to bring about a search function that enables Ask Search users to browse the engine’s digital stacks in complete anonymity. No keyword cookies saved. No records of foot- and fingerprints filed away. Nope. Just you and [...]

Today, StumbleUpon, the company whose claim to fame is a nifty shuffle-like technology that provides Web browsers (people, not software programs) with the option to discover new facets (a.k.a.: sites) of the Internet quickly and easily, announced an addendum to its product/service. The new addition will allow for it to venture out of the toolbar and into webpages themselves.
Well, those of search engines, at least. StumbleUpon has unveiled SearchReviews, a feature that, aside the ranking of links on engines like [...]

There are so many search engines on the web now that people are probably finding search engines by using search engines. But most of these search sites utilize a very basic algorithm to gather content, with Google, Ask, and Microsoft's Live being the biggest exceptions.

Today, in an effort to expand the abilities of online search, Amvona has launched what they call a “revolutionary” new media search engine known as Discovery, as part of the Amvona 720 social shopping and [...]

Following search engine Ask’s announcement last week of a feature to be introduced later this year that will allow users to maintain a masked existence on the site, bigger wigs in the industry are now paying greater heed to privacy concerns and stepping out with their own plans on how they themselves intend to keep their users’ information safe.
Microsoft and Yahoo! are the latest entities to speak out on the subject and let be known their respective [...]

In an effort to make itself known as the most thorough of privacy protectors in the realm of search today, Ask.com, generally thought to be the fourth in line to the industry throne (behind Yahoo!, MSN, and AOL), has announced a feature to be launched later this year which will allow users to perform “anonymous searches.”
The feature, dubbed "AskEraser", will be possible for the portal’s users to easily turn on as a barrier disallowing Ask from retaining any information regarding [...]

We are now at a point at which only a week, one heavy with anticipation, separates consumers from the official US release of a product millions eagerly wish to own. The iPhone. And already, a developer has established an application directory assembled specifically for users of the device. It’s called AddFone.
If you’re keeping up with announcements of Web apps crafted for the iPhone, you’ll know from the start that the directory will be considerably sparse by the time of [...]