Ask.com Mocks Yahoo With Employee Poaching Sign

Aug 12, 2009 at 3:59pm ET by Barry Schwartz

I was walking through the expo hall, which I rarely do, and I spotted at the Ask.com booth this sign.

You read that? “My company just gave up on search. Where do I work now” and then the URL at the bottom. That is Ask.com being funny and then trying to pick up Yahoo Search employees. I am also being told that they are giving away bars of chocolate that say the same line.

Yea, Yahoo did give up on search but I also personally believe Ask.com has also given up on search.

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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ONE COMMENT ON Ask.com Mocks Yahoo With Employee Poaching Sign

everfluxx, August 12th, 2009 at 7:18 pm ET:

Ask also gave up on tastefulness, it seems.

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