Ask: Web Search
A Look Back At The Old Search Engines
The Six Revisions blog complied an excellent list of the classic search engines, some dating back to the 1990s. His list includes screen shots...
Ask.com Expands AnswerFarm Q&A Database
Continuing its move from being a traditional search engine to an “answer engine,” Ask today has announced that its...
Russian Roulette: McAfee Details Web’s Riskiest Search Terms
Somewhere online right now there’s a music fan who’s big on free downloads, likes Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida” but...
Ask.com & Symantec Partner To Detect Malicious Sites
Ask.com has partnered with Symantec to include a new “Safe Search” feature into the Norton 360 security suite, integrated into the...
Ask.com Goes Back To 1996 With New Release
Ask.com has released version 11 of their new search engine today. The new version somewhat goes back to the Ask Jeeves approach, focusing on...
Ask Kids Relaunches With Cute Kids Features
A few days ago, Ask.com relaunched Ask Kids, their search flavored for children. The Ask.com blog just wrote about the launch last night....
Searching For Olympics News And Video
The Olympics are now officially under way. One of the unofficial competitions is among the search engines and companion sites to offer scores,...
Ask.com Adds Privacy Link To Home Page, Hopes People Care
Google recently came under fire for not providing a link to its privacy policy right from its home page, as Yahoo and Microsoft do. Ask.com,...
How Search Engines Redirect Users To Country-Specific Sites
Yahoo just started redirecting people in the UK who are trying to reach Yahoo.com instead to its Yahoo UK web site, something that Google has...
IAC Cuts 8% Of Ask.com & Kills Search Engine
IAC’s Ask.com to Cut Staff, Outlines New Search Strategy from the Wall Street Journal reports IAC has cut 8% of Ask.com’s workforce,...
Ask.com Adds More Sponsored Ads, Pushing Organic Results Below Fold
I was messing around with the Ask.com interface on my Mac and decided to compare some results between my Mac browser and Internet Explorer for...
Ask.com Binoculars Adds Compete.com Stats
Ask.com has announced that they have added site statistics from Compete.com to the binoculars feature in the search results. Now, instead of...
Google: We Didn’t Censor Aboutrika’s Gaza T-Shirt Photo
Google’s Matt Cutts has lent his personal blog to the Google Images search team so they could debunk a rumor that Google censored an image...
Ask Offers Smart (Election) Answers
Thanks to Gary Price for pointing out that Ask.com is offering its own round up of content and information related to the primaries via its core...
Customizing Your Search With Ask.com
Don’t like the backgrounds available on Ask.com? No problem. Now you can upload any image you want. For instance, maybe you’d like...
Privacy Group Finds Flaws In AskEraser’s Privacy Tool
Group says Ask’s privacy feature is flawed from News.com reports that the Electronic Privacy Information Center has found a few flaws in...
Ask.com Launches AskEraser Giving Searches Ability To Search Anonymously
Ask.com has launched AskEraser, giving searchers the ability to search anonymously. Ask.com told us about this tool back in July, and six months...
Search 3.0: The Blended & Vertical Search Revolution
This has been a remarkable year. After years of no real dramatic evolution in search, the third generation finally arrived. Google calls it...
Ask.com Adds Current Time Feature For Local Searches
Ask.com is now displaying a clock showing the local time in relation to local searches. For example, search for san jose, ca, and you’ll...
Ask’s Michael Ferguson: Optimize For Content Rich SERPs
This week kicks off the first of our guest writers on Just Behave. This week, I’m pleased to welcome Michael Ferguson from Ask.com....