Today Ask.com, formerly known as Ask Jeeves, will lay off a vast majority of its employees and concede its small piece of the search market to Google and Microsoft. The remaining search staff will now be focusing on the Ask Q&A product.
Archive for ask.com
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Ask No More – The End of Ask.com
TJ Dinsmoor
10Nov
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End of Year Search Trend Wrap-Ups
Terri Greene
As we are approaching the end of the year, we once again experience the excitement of seeing the end of year search trend wrap-ups from all of the search engines. What was the most search term of 2008? Who was the most searched celebrity? Well, the year hasn’t wrapped completely; however, there are some search engines that are letting the cat out of the bag a little early. Below, you’ll see a preview of some of the most popular search terms, fastest rising search terms, most asked questions as well as top names in the news.
18Dec
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Ask.com Delivers Safer Way to Search
Nicholas Grohne
One of a parent’s biggest concerns when it comes to online search is children being exposed prematurely to adult content via the internet. Ask.com is doing their part to help relieve some parental anxiety by launching AskKids.com. AskKids.com delivers a kid friendly search which displays results that are focused towards a younger audience. It is also considered to be the most graphically vivid display of any major search engine. Although the launch of AskKids.com won’t ease all of a parent’s stresses, it will definitely help alleviate some fear about their child accessing something that they shouldn’t be on the web.
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27Aug
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People Want Their Privacy
Nicholas Grohne
Google was recently the center of negative attention when it was brought to the publics’ attention that they did not have a link to their Privacy Policy readily available from their homepage. Yahoo! and MSN both implemented the policy on their respective homepages and in an attempt to ride the wave, Ask.com has recently added a link as well.
18Jun
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Ask.com Targets Married Women and Abandons Broad Market
Michaela Crawford
In a dramatic about-face, Ask.com is abandoning its effort to outshine Internet search leader Google and will instead focus on a narrower market consisting of married women looking for help managing their lives.
05Mar
