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Ask.com Posts Most Popular Questions Of 2013 Without Waiting To See What Gets Asked In Dec.
It’s not even Thanksgiving week, but Ask.com has posted its Most Popular Questions and Search Terms for the year, listing 2013’s top...
Market Share: Bing Continues Gains, Yahoo “Stabilized,” Google Flat
Financial analysts are releasing May comScore search market share data to their clients, which means we’re getting an early look at what...
Ask’s New App Search To Be Powered By Quixey
Quixey and Ask have entered into a deal in which apps from Quixey’s database, whether for mobile or the PC, will be integrated into...
The Big Ask Of 2012: Do You Search For Team Kstew Or Rpatz?
Ask.com’s 100 million users remain almost as loyal as Twihards, prompting us to ask if searchers are on Team Jeeves or Team Diller when...
Study: Google Search Share Slips Below 90% In The UK In October
Only 89.33% of internet searches in the UK were conducted on Google sites last month, according to Experian Hitwise. It’s the first time...
Ask CEO Doug Leeds Proclaims Search Wars “Over,” Says Yahoo Can Be Great Again
Ask.com has 3.5 percent of the search market according to comScore. Ask.com CEO Doug Leeds told Bloomberg that number may seem small but it...
September Search Share: Yahoo Continues Downward Slide
We’re getting the usual sneak peek at comScore data from financial analysts ahead of the official release tomorrow. In terms of the...
Scroogle’s Gone? Here’s Who Still Offers Private Searching
You’ve probably read the news already that Scroogle is gone forever. It launched back in 2003 and was popular among searchers who wanted...
Ask.com Has The Most Long-Winded Searchers, Report Says
The longest search queries are happening on Ask.com, where users average almost five words per search. That’s according to research from...
Ask.com Opens Up Its Human Q&A Community, Steps Further Away From Search
After more than a year in beta, Ask.com today opened the doors on its community-based question-and-answer product. It positions Ask as much less...
Ask.com Celebrates 15th Birthday
Ask.com the social search/Q&A engine is 15 years old. Founded in 1996 as Ask Jeeves by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen the company has...
IAC Revises And Re-Ups Its Deal With Google
IAC, the parent of Ask.com, the Daily Beast and Citysearch, today announced it has amended and extended its distribution agreement with Google...
Ask Comes Full Circle With “Q&A” Offering
As Matt posted earlier this evening Ask is in beta on a new approach to search, or perhaps more accurately: a return to an earlier approach but...
The New Ask.com: A Little Bit Search, A Little Bit Answers
As we (and others) hinted a couple weeks ago, Ask.com is re-launching as a cross between a traditional search engine and the question-and-answer...
Ask to Introduce New Q&A Engine Soon
Ask.com was arguably the original Q&A engine. Now the site is seeking to introduce a new product, which leverages both its search assets and...
When Google Fails, Yahoo & Ask.com Win: Study
With Google owning the search landscape, the best other search engines can hope for these days is to be a searcher’s second-favorite...
Teoma Returns As Ask.com’s “Simple Interface”
Sean Carlos wrote that Teoma.com is now back in action. Teoma was acquired by Ask Jeeves back in 2001 and ultimately became the search...
Armstrong: Google Gets “First Dibs” At AOL Search Deal
AOL’s CEO: Google To Get 1st Shot At New Search Deal from the Wall Street Journal reports AOL’s CEO, Tim Armstrong saying that...
Ask Making A Bigger Bet On “Social Search” Or Q&A
If you’re the number four search engine in a market that is looking like it’s going to be about two (maybe three) players in the...
Diller Says He’s Willing To Sell Ask.com
Barry Diller, CEO of IAC — the parent company of Ask.com — said today that he’s willing to sell the struggling, fourth-place...
