Posts Tagged with ‘ask.com’

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 [...]

It looks like the Olympic Games is a focus of everyone’s attention anyway so I decided to collect the special themed Olympic logos on some of the websites - well, those I have managed to find myself. They are not numerous so I suspect that not every web compny can afford such things for every special even. Google is definitely leading the game since the internet giant seems to produce a new logo for every important event - this is [...]

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 [...]

"Imagine you could connect with someone who knows the answers to your questions, on any topic, at any time." - presenting Yedda, a network of individuals providing answers to other member questions based on personal and professional expertise. Alternatively, as noted on Yedda’s home page, "Actively finding the best answers from the most relevant people. Just for you."
At first glimpse, I recalled such network and advice columns as Ask.com, Shell Busey’s referral network, Harry Dunbar’s North American Tile and [...]

Up until now, Ask.com was losing the war for popularity as a search engine against heavy hitters like Google. In fact, right up until December of last year, every thing about their visible strategy pointed to a continuation, however fruitless, of a quest for search dominance. This week, they abruptly changed focus from search to women.
It seems that Ask.com has decided to become a resource for a specific brand of woman: married and southern or midwestern. It seemed bold [...]

Every so often, one of these “not an app, but a feature” products surprises me. SurfCanyon is one of those feature products. Originally designed as a web site, they have relaunched as a browser plug-in designed to make your search results better.
SurfCanyon runs on top of Google, Yahoo, and Live searches (not Ask.com, though, or any of the search aggregators like Dogpile), unobtrusively. All you see is a small target icon next to a link in search results. If you [...]

American Idol fans will now be able to search the hakia American Idol GalleryTM. Fans of the popular American Idol talent show can simply type in "American Idol" to see hakia's innovative GalleryTM results displayed.
In a post a few days ago we tested hakia.com to test this newly released aspect of hakia. To be frank, we loved it! It looks like hakia is pulling out all the stops in an effort to be the first-est and best-est of 2007's [...]

Today I have seen the new Google's special Valentine's Day logo on TechCrunch - I am sure someone in the company will have a really bad Valentine's day (and not because of being lonely but because of the logo). I think that Valentine's Day must really be a Web 2.0 holiday with so many companies engaged in it - even important enough for Google to use a special logo (definitely created in a hurry but still). I also hope you [...]