Ask Relaunches: Now “Ask 3D”
Jun 4, 2007 at 9:14pm ET by Greg Sterling
Chris Sherman once compared Ask.com to Apple. Ask CEO Jim Lanzone remarked to me that he liked the comparison because it spoke to quality and innovativeness. Indeed, among the top-tier search engines Ask has arguably been the most innovative. In one sense it has to be. Without that effort it might lose hold on the roughly 5 percent search market share it currently has.
But the site has never gotten the notice and usage that Lanzone feels is justified. That may change with the introduction of the new Ask -– "Ask 3D." The company is touting the release as a "major leap forward" for search. [...]
Filed in: Ask: Ask X, Ask: General, Ask: Web Search
Ask.com’s Usability Architect: Exclusive Interview With Michael Ferguson
May 18, 2007 at 10:03am ET by Gord Hotchkiss
I love an underdog, especially a smart underdog. So I’m definitely rooting for Ask.com, because I think they’ve been an undervalued player in the search game. All the headlines have been focused on the big three and in the meantime, the team back at Ask.com has been quietly building a better search engine. A much better search engine. And from the user’s point of view, one of the main people to thank is Michael Ferguson, Ask’s key user interface person.
Michael and I met a few years ago when we both presented on the same panel at Search Engine Strategies (the name of the city escap [...]
Filed in: Ask: Ask X, Ask: Employees, Ask: Web Search, Just Behave
Imagine Live Search – Microsoft’s Test Site Launches
May 17, 2007 at 8:21am ET by Barry Schwartz
Spotted via LiveSide, Imagine Live Search is a new experimental search engine from Windows Live. Like those from Ask (Ask X), Google (SearchMash) and Yahoo (Alpha), it provides a mixture of results all on the same page. Below is a look at Microsoft's new test bed search engine, Imagine Live Search, as well as a comparison to the other test bed search engines from the other providers.
Imagine Live Search:
http://search.imagine-live.com/
I figured I do a search for [george bush] and show you some of the features. Here is a quick overview of the page:
Let me go through each element:
The [...]
Filed in: Ask: Ask X, Google: Web Search, Search Engines: Experimental, Yahoo: Search
Search Engines’ Test Beds
Jan 19, 2007 at 8:50am ET by Barry Schwartz
In Search of... Better Ways to Search at the Wall Street Journal goes through the different ways search engines like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Ask.com use "spin off" sites to test new features. We have reported about all these in the past, but the article offers a nice overview of many of the methods search engines test features.
Google's Test Site: SearchMash.com
Yahoo's Test Sites: AllTheWeb and AltaVista
Microsoft's Test Site: Ms Dewey
Ask.com's Test Site: Ask X
The search engines also constantly test out new features to a subset of their users on their main sites.
[...]
Filed in: Ask: Ask X, Google: Other, Google: User Interface, Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: Other, Yahoo: SEO, Yahoo: Search, Yahoo: User Interface
Interview with Ask.com “Head Chef” and CEO Jim Lanzone
Jan 11, 2007 at 4:12pm ET by Chris Sherman
Spotted via Marketing Pilgrim, this interview with Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone by Donna Bogatin at ZDNet on his vision and his role within both Ask and parent company IAC:
"We are a world-class technology company and we are able to take ingredients from our sister companies, luckily in many cases premium ingredients because they are number 1 and 2 in their category, and we can remix those ingredients into something that is market leading in a particular vertical. That is exactly what we did with AskCity."
Lanzone also talks about the new AskX site, other future additions in vertical search, and [...]
Filed in: Ask: Ask X, Ask: Business Issues, Ask: General
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