Ask > Ask: News
Feb. 7, 2008 at 1:29pm by Chris Sherman
If You Like Digg, You'll Love Ask's Big News
As Vanessa noted, Ask.com has revamped its news aggregation service, adding lots of bells and whistles and a few useful features. Most notably, Ask has embraced the social media tenet that you need others to tell you how important a news story is, with its new "BigFactor" ratings. Like Google...
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Feb. 6, 2008 at 8:11pm by Vanessa Fox
Ask Launches BigNews
Ask has just launched a new search service called BigNews, similar to Google News with a side of Digg. It uses something called "BigFactor" to rank stories (using signals like freshness, impact, quantity of multimedia, and amount of related discussion), provides category clusters, and lets you browse by top Diggs...
